{"id":84,"date":"2011-02-27T12:36:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T12:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2023-07-02T16:29:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T16:29:07","slug":"5-tips-for-photography-on-dull-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcfade.co.uk\/blog\/5-tips-for-photography-on-dull-days","title":{"rendered":"5 tips for photography on dull days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photography on Dull Days…. can you do it?<\/h1>\n

Its the weekend, you’ve been looking forward to getting the camera out for shoot, but its dull as chuff… grey skies, no shadows or interesting light.<\/p>\n

What do you do – abandon the camera?<\/p>\n

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Ideas for Dull Day Photography<\/h1>\n

Well here’s a few ideas<\/p>\n

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  1. Practice <\/strong>flash photography<\/a> – with a dull background, you can use this to create a moody shot, with the foreground or “model” lit by your flash. Useful when your flash synch speed is only 1\/200th etc.<\/li>\n
  2. Avoid including skies<\/strong> – they’re dull, lifeless and have no texture, so no real interest<\/li>\n
  3. Shoot waterfalls<\/strong> – low light means you can get those long shutter speeds to blur the water<\/li>\n
  4. Have a go at HDR inside churches<\/strong> – its dull outside, but light enough to make those stained glass windows glow a bit, so ideal for HDR. If the windows are really bright on a sunny day, it can make even HDR tricky<\/li>\n
  5. Street photography<\/a><\/strong> – I’ll not lie, I prefer bright sunshine and all the shadows and highlights it gives you, but street is good on dull days too. You probably need to jack up the ISO and have a wider aperture to sharply capture those moving people.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Dull days are the death knell to most Landscape Photography<\/a> outings, but there’s so much more you could be doing instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Dull days kill landscape photography, transforming fantastic scenes in to flat, boring ones. 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