I wish I had written this post that I’m going to point you to today with time-lapse images showing different locations and how they look before dawn right through sunrise, and how the colors change so dramatically over such a short period of time.
I want to highlight this great post from photographer and tech author Jefferson Graham for two reasons:
(1) I’ve been working on an update to one of my books this week and I was writing about one of the benefits from shooting in a city before dawn is that the city lights are still on (see Jeff’s perfect example above), and that alone makes a big difference in the shot, not to mention the better light and color you get before dawn.
(2) Erik Kuna and I were talking about this on a Grid episode recently and how so many photographers show up at sunrise — right after the light starts to turn ugly and the first tourists appear. They basically just missed the great light and the tourist-free scenes.
Here’s the link to Jefferson’s post.
If you’re not following him on social, you oughta — he posts a lot of cool stuff, and in particular videos of photo walks in various locations where he gives you really interesting ideas of places and things to shoot. Here’s a link to this Twitter feed and his Photo walks YouTube channel. Give him a follow.
Here’s to making the most out of this week!
-Scott
