Project Day 4

The project for Day 4 is to "Check the weather forecast and head out to a location close to home to shoot sunrise and sunset."

Here are my photos:

Taken clockwise, the time for the photos are 1) 19:25 2) 19:27 (sunset) 3) 19:29 and 4) 19:31.

So, what can we learn from this? Well, in theory there should be a noticeable change in the quality of light (it gets darker for example) and colour of the sky. While this did happen, it is not as noticeable in the photos as in real life. I think that this tutorial, given the circumstances of the shoot, shows more the effects of heavy cloud cover on sunsets than on the effects of sunsets on the landscape as a whole. Basically, there isn't much of a difference sunset or not, when the clouds are covering up the sky!

You might be asking yourself why I chose to take these photos on such a lousy day given that I was supposed to be photographing sunsets. Well, the reasoning is simple. After three days of waiting for a decent sunrise or sunset, I got fed up and took what I was given (a cloudy day). You see, Derry is experiencing some very bad weather photography-wise. Wet and cloudy or overcast. This is expected to continue for the next three days at least. So rather than put this tutorial off forever, I thought I would get moving even if the results were not as intended. I think that this is a very important lesson to learn when it comes to landscape photography: you are not always going to get the best conditions to work under just because you want them!

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