When
I used to get up long before dawn and get out to shoot long before sunrise. When you do that, the pickings may be slim.
What you lose in the number of people that are up and about, you gain in the quality and color of light.
If your “when” is early in the morning, you also get to see things the late riser never sees. Here, all the shops, still closed, act as a wall of monochromatic color, a foil for the lone figure. Come here an hour later and the color and direction of the light have changed.
The shop windows, with the opening of the shops, erupt into separate little worlds, changing the background into a kaleidoscopic factor rather than a cohesive one. That’s not a bad shot, but it’s a very different shot.
And the guy that comes late will ...
Get It’s Not About the F-Stop now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
