Here are a couple of snaps I captured over the weekend while visiting Beer in Devon with friends.
Despite the very bright and quite harsh summer light the location looked too good to not shoot.
As I mentioned last week in a previous post there is never any bad light it just depends what you want to capture.
I was asked to do some teaching the other day which I rarely do much of these days and I was explaining how important it is to learn the fundamentals of photography.
I also very quickly added that once you have learnt them that really anything goes ..if something works for the intention of the image you are creating then it works end of the story.
This kind of applies to this image as I rarely would ever create any serious imagery in the middle of the day especially in the height of summer.
The sunlight (if we have any) is harsh, contrast and for the most part pretty uninteresting and if shooting landscapes everything tends to be a little too green with little colour contrast between anything.
Having said that I’ve always maintained there is no bad light it just depends on what you are trying to achieve in the image.
I had the idea of creating a cow image for a while and for me they remind me of Summer with yes you guessed its green fields and deep Mediterranean blue skies.
Apart from having to be careful with the vast contrast inherent in the scene it all went together well with an appropriate Somerset landmark of Burrow Hill in the distance.
