High Noon

One of the rules of photography is that you should avoid taking pictures between late morning and mid afternoon, especially in the summer when the light is very harsh. However, today being at the start of spring when the sun is alot lower in the sky, and the fact I like to ignore rules, meant I took a lunchtime excursion to the common in the village I work. There's not too much around which meant I had to really use my eyes, and also being quite flat I really had to search for the added interest. What caught my eye was a broken wooden fence surrounding what looked like a practice 'alley' for cricketers. The astro turf provided some saturated greens, and the harsh sun created lots of shadows which intertwined with the leaning fence.

Underexposing by -2/3 stop due to the extreme brightness helped preserve the hightlights in the wooden sticks. I knew I would probably punch up the shadows in Lightroom later, but looking at the images now, the exposure was pretty much spot on, just slightly lacking in contrast.

I also thought at the time, a square crop would work better with the diagonal lines, which was the case for most of the shots I took, but a few lent themselves more to a wider horizontal crop.