The most beautiful light

[snusmumriken]

Light is the most frustrating thing a photographer has to contend with. Unusually, this one worked out OK. FP4+ in BT2B

 

[GregY]

That shaded north light in early December.
'34 Leica lll model f, 3.5cm Elmar

 

[Bill Burk]

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Fred Picker had a name for this light! “Squall Light”. The late afternoon sun sneaking under a layer of clouds.

Just one photo I took in this light makes me very happy. Whenever I see squall light now I lament that I do not happen to be in the mountains at that moment.

At the time, I was living in Camp Nelson and walking along the South Fork of the Middle Fork of the Tule River after a thunderstorm. (You can look that river up it’s real). I was heading up through a shortcut between Belknap Grove and my cabin and the squall light was magnificent.

It’s the kind of light we’ve been talking about (Ansel Adams’ ‘Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico’) except that the sky is a perfect backdrop of gray.

Squall Light is the most beautiful light.

 

[Bill Burk]

That shaded north light in early December.
'34 Leica lll model f, 3.5cm Elmar

That is a nice photo Greg! You’re right to be proud of it.

 

[GregY]

That is a nice photo Greg! You’re right to be proud of it.

Thank you Bill, I'm just alway pleased to make a print that captures a special quality of light. As we all know, it doesn't happen all the time

 

[miha]

Light is the most frustrating thing a photographer has to contend with. Unusually, this one worked out OK. FP4+ in BT2B

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Very nice!

 

[snusmumriken]

Very nice!

Thank you!

Seeing @blee1996 photo from Finland reminded me of the countless frames I have wasted trying to capture the summer light shining through a grove of birch trees. This is a scan from a colour negative.

 

[4season]

I don't encounter silver light too often, but it can be very beautiful:

 

[MurrayMinchin]

I don't encounter silver light too often, but it can be very beautiful:
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Mmmmmmmmm...buttery smoooooooooth light

 

[ericB&W]

I took this picture casually, was at home in my room at computer looking at the window as there
had been a rainstorm, it was June or end of April i don't remember, i looked at these three beautful
strips of color , the deep saturated blue of the clean sky on top, the dark grey still cloudy in the middle and the yellow of the sunset in the lower strip.
Luckily i had the Nikon F80 with a Portra 400 inside and shoot quickly in matrix mode .