There are certain things that I like to photograph. Flowers are always nice and easy and beautiful. I like photographing water. And fire! Fire is fascinating to photograph. And I like playing around with light. Not the lighting settings on the camera, but light in the real world. I'm not good at it, but tonight I did have fun with it.
It kind of started with the flag (which, is your basic slap-a-state-seal-on-a-navy-background-and-call-it-a-day flag, so the flat in and of itself is not super impressive). I liked how the light really hit the seal in the first one, and then about 25 steps later, you could see the whole flag kind of lit up by the sunset.
This one isn't the greatest picture overall, but I liked how the light was hitting the tree trunks. Light does the same with buildings, and I like the effect. (Even if the photo isn't the best.)
Most of the time, the sunset wasn't this bright, but anytime it was coming through trees, it really exploded:
And in the evening, you get this nice glare off of windows, that changes as you move where you are in relation to the sun.
And here's one NOT taken through tree limbs:
Sometimes I have to fight with the camera to get it to see what I see. It registers light differently. For example, on the automatic settings (minus the flash, which often blows things out in a weird way), it saw this:
But I saw this:
And I had to play around with the settings quite a bit to get this one right:
(The second one is what I saw.)
It does take practice, and I'm still learning how to get my camera to see what I see, how to get the light right. Purples are super hard. I still haven't nailed purple.
The background colors in this picture aren't right at all, but I didn't have the right gear with me to make it work at that time of day. But it did capture the light playing on the leaves correctly. (I promise, the leaves are actually the same color without the light hitting them that way).
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