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following are some images taken over the years that for whatever reason were taken in changing light,
this was as shot at mrs macquaries chair, many years ago. sails are hot a bit but this is after blue hour.
what you notice is dark skies and maybe lack of light on water, cooling WB may help, but this is for example.
an image taken from similar spot but during blue hour.
interestingly enough, I had some asian tourists to camera left taking pix with this stuff in the background,
their flashes caught the tree on the left which may or may not help, depending on your point of view.
notice this time that there is more light in the sky and probably more reflections off the water due to more overall light around.
left blown or hot stuff as shot again.
this next one is during the end of golden hour.
facing away from the setting sun.
buildings are still getting the last light from the sun and there is still light around, but not overpowering.
now we have the sun gone, but some afterglow in the sky giving a nice orange, there is still enough light to see stuff,
but lights are starting to get some sting to them.
maybe you could mess around with some flash or light painting if you wanted foreground details, or even use a tripod and take an earlier shot and blend it.
some light painting examples now
this shot of the shipwreck was shot the same night as the golden hour pic above but later.
at this stage, we are into blue hour and maybe a hint of light on the buldings in the background,
but the sky is that lovely blue purple you get, but the sun long gone from the shipwreck, so you need to light it up a bit.
if you use a long exposure to get the shipwreck, then you blow out the lovely colours in the background,
so what to do? a flash might do it but you may need to use a flash extender or maybe even it not enough reach
but cos it is night time, you are carrying a torch so you use that. I applied a sweep of light on the wreck to light it up
I could have done some on the mangroves too but didnt.
how much light you need is gonna be determined by how dark it is, how much iso you got etc.
no particular method to knowing other than experience or trial and error. mind you the prime light not there for long
so you can take a pic or two and correct based on what you see. I think less light in the lightpainting is better than over doing it.
another lightpaint example with closer foreground stuff.
again we know how much exposure for the night sky
but it is very dark up there, so a sweep of the torch lit up the foreground to expose the car.
with light painting, I prefer to swing the torch so you get even light across the area, may depend on beam produced by torch of course.
sometimes you want dark images, moody etc. I just offering up some examples of light and what you might expect shooting in different light.
this was as shot at mrs macquaries chair, many years ago. sails are hot a bit but this is after blue hour.
what you notice is dark skies and maybe lack of light on water, cooling WB may help, but this is for example.
an image taken from similar spot but during blue hour.
interestingly enough, I had some asian tourists to camera left taking pix with this stuff in the background,
their flashes caught the tree on the left which may or may not help, depending on your point of view.
notice this time that there is more light in the sky and probably more reflections off the water due to more overall light around.
left blown or hot stuff as shot again.
this next one is during the end of golden hour.
facing away from the setting sun.
buildings are still getting the last light from the sun and there is still light around, but not overpowering.
now we have the sun gone, but some afterglow in the sky giving a nice orange, there is still enough light to see stuff,
but lights are starting to get some sting to them.
maybe you could mess around with some flash or light painting if you wanted foreground details, or even use a tripod and take an earlier shot and blend it.
some light painting examples now
this shot of the shipwreck was shot the same night as the golden hour pic above but later.
at this stage, we are into blue hour and maybe a hint of light on the buldings in the background,
but the sky is that lovely blue purple you get, but the sun long gone from the shipwreck, so you need to light it up a bit.
if you use a long exposure to get the shipwreck, then you blow out the lovely colours in the background,
so what to do? a flash might do it but you may need to use a flash extender or maybe even it not enough reach
but cos it is night time, you are carrying a torch so you use that. I applied a sweep of light on the wreck to light it up
I could have done some on the mangroves too but didnt.
how much light you need is gonna be determined by how dark it is, how much iso you got etc.
no particular method to knowing other than experience or trial and error. mind you the prime light not there for long
so you can take a pic or two and correct based on what you see. I think less light in the lightpainting is better than over doing it.
another lightpaint example with closer foreground stuff.
again we know how much exposure for the night sky
but it is very dark up there, so a sweep of the torch lit up the foreground to expose the car.
with light painting, I prefer to swing the torch so you get even light across the area, may depend on beam produced by torch of course.
sometimes you want dark images, moody etc. I just offering up some examples of light and what you might expect shooting in different light.
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