A Scene Throughout A Day -- Sabina

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12:00 PM -- Railroad Ave. 
1/60; f32; ISO 200


2:00 PM -- Apartments of Railroad Ave. 
1/8; f32; ISO 100


4:00 PM -- Apartments of Railroad Ave. 
1/8; f29; ISO 100


8:00 PM -- Apartments of Railroad Ave. 
1/13; f16; ISO 6400


The colors of the sky and the lighting against the buildings of my apartment complex constantly change throughout the day. I normally only take pictures of this path when the light is exceptionally warm or the sky is bursting with surreal color. This assignment was challenging for me. I wanted to capture the changes of the light throughout the day in relation to the tall buildings which sometimes block the sun's rays. I also have minimal experience with capturing scenes in broad daylight as my preference is to avoid such harsh light in photos. The sunset was not as painted tonight just before sunset, but the difficulty of taking a picture that gave enough light exposure to the buildings without washing out the sky was, well, difficult. Some of my images were blurrier than others and I can see some blurriness in these photos too. I needed to switch directions of where I was shooting because the brightness of the sky either darkened the area below or left the sky a blank canvas. Even the road signs are dark in every photo no matter how I switched the settings, unless I wanted a white sky, which I did not. It was nice to see how the warm light in some photos juxtaposed the bare trees. I think that the air looks crisp in some of these photos, but that could just be because it was incredibly frosty outside each time I went out to take photos. In every image, the foreground is dark. This could be a nice way of framing the photo but I feel it detracts from it and I would prefer to crop the image or keep experimenting with my camera settings or modes. I think deciding to practice more of a landscape photo shoot proved to be more challenging than I thought in different lighting. I want to continue practicing landscape photography and work on learning to find or create a scene more intentionally.  

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