Special Times for Lighting
I have often joked that landscape photographers need to be sentient and aware around sunrise and sunset. Otherwise, we could spend the entire middle of the day and not miss too much.
This, of course, is not entirely fair. Depending on the kind of weather, bright overcast in the middle of the day can create great diffuse lighting for garden photography. Nevertheless, photographers need to be particularly conscious of the light early and late in the day.
With sunrise, as dawn commences, light turns an attractive shade of blue. As the day progresses, light becomes golden. Finally, the sun comes up. Things stay golden for a little, and then become the bright full-on sun that we know.
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