Direct and Diffused Sunlight
The photographing of details provides me the opportunity to create good photographs with virtually any quality of light, especially harsh, direct sunlight. Though direct sunlight, even at high noon, is a quality of light that many photographers dislike and hope to avoid, I often find that such light can be perfect to create images in which strong, deep shadows can help reveal the details of the objects or scenes that I’m choosing to photograph.
When I stopped to photograph this sculpture, I knew I could simply take an overall shot that revealed it in its environment, but that would have succeeded only in making a nice postcard image. It wouldn’t have expressed what I found beautiful and interesting.
It was a bright, ...
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