{"id":33,"date":"2007-01-29T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T14:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/29\/cloudy-day-photographs\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T14:52:07","slug":"cloudy-day-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/cloudy-day-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"When Bad is Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What makes good weather for photography is often not what people consider good weather in general.  A bright, sunny day usually makes for poor photographs because of the deep, harsh shadows that appear.  Our eyes and brain compensate for this automatically when we look around a scene but once it&#8217;s been captured by a camera, the exposure is fixed.  Theres nothing that our eyes can do, then, to help.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" align=\"left\" title=\"Lighthouse on the Pacific Ocean\" id=\"image32\" alt=\"Lighthouse on the Pacific Ocean\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/lighthouse.jpg\" \/>What you need when bright sunlight abounds are huge, overhead, translucent diffusers.  Meteorologists call these &#8220;clouds&#8221;. Yes, clouds are a photographer&#8217;s friend.  They scatter the light so that there are no shadows, or at least no deep shadows.  A camera can then record the entire dynamic range and produce images that look right when printed.<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t be afraid to go outside when it&#8217;s cloudy or threatening rain.  That&#8217;s often when you&#8217;ll get your best pictures.  The sky, too, can be more interesting this way than the nice, deep blue of clear day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes good weather for photography is often not what people consider good weather in general. A bright, sunny day usually makes for poor photographs because of the deep, harsh shadows that appear. Our eyes and brain compensate for this automatically when we look around a scene but once it&#8217;s been captured by a camera, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}