Night Cycling

The main objective of the Year Long Project was to observe the changes in light depending on the time of day. Many professional photographers will head into the studio after about 10 in the morning until about 4.30 in the afternoon (season-dependant) as the morning and evening light leads to much better photography than the middle of the day.

Hopefully in these photos, taken at different times of the day (although not taken on the same day), it is easily observed that the colours and shadows from the photographs taken in the morning, late afternoon and evening are much more interesting than the midday photograph. There is a lot more depth to the photographs without the harsh sunlight and small amount of shadow.

This project has certainly changed the time of day that I take photographs, and I now try and avoid taking photos except at the extremities of the day.

Over the course of most of 2012, I embarked on a year long project which I’ll discuss in more detail in future posts. These sites will become very familiar as I present photographs from them over the course of this project. The following four photographs were all taken from Queensbridge, Central Melbourne, Australia. They were shot in four different directions, all within 15 metres of each other, and all within minutes of each other. For the course of this project, all scenes will be presented as photographed with no image editing apart from resizing and possibly dust removal.