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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 01:51pm on 2008-09-24

[State of the Glenn: not feeling well; not sleeping well; really poorly timed hyperacusis, since recent utility work left a steel plate over a boomy hole in a travel lane of Fulton Ave., and even with earplugs in, it sounds like a damned cannon going off every few seconds. Wearing earplugs enough of the time that my ear canal feels bruised even though the plugs are soft foam (haven't tried the moldable waxy ones yet). So ... not keeping up well with communication, especially the phone. Hoping to finally make it out of the house today to refill prescriptions.]

This afternoon when something dramatically lit by sun through a window caught my eye, a thought struck me regarding photography:

Anything, even ordinarily ugly subjects, can be made beautiful with the right lighting. (Though in extreme cases, the right lighting may be to turn off the room lights and draw a picture on the object with a laser pointer.)

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posted by [identity profile] sodyera.livejournal.com at 03:13pm on 2008-09-24
I agree, there are simply times of day when it's not a good idea to take pictures unless you have to. On sunny days my best shots have almost always come after 4 PM.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.insanejournal.com at 03:19pm on 2008-09-24
Yup! Though conventional wisdom puts it a little later, most places/most season (I expect it matters a lot what it is you're shooting and how many tall vertical things are in the area): see the phrase 'golden hour'.

Part of it is simply avoiding the harshness of noon sun and the usually-not-useful direction of shadows then, even if you're not hitting the colour-temperature shift of the golden hour.

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