The assignment for the week of 28 September through 5 October is “Warm Light.” Because the quality and characteristics of light play such an important role in photography, I will continue to provide assignments that emphasize certain aspects of light. It takes experience photographing in many different light sources to develop the skill to "read" the light and optimize your images to take advantage of the qualities of light.
"Warm" light is typically associated with sunrise or sunset, where the light takes on a warm, soft glow from the sun low on the horizon. Nature and landscape photographers typically call the hour after sunrise and the hour before sunset "the golden hours" because of the warm, pleasing quality of light. Candlelight, light from a fire, and light from an incandescent bulb can also be "warm" light, and impart a pleasing, welcoming feeling to portraits and other scenes photographed in this light.
Note that if you are using a digital camera set on auto white balance, the "auto" function of your camera's white balance adjustment may try to "over correct" for the warm light to make it more neutral. You may want to try setting your white balance on "daylight" to keep the camera from over-correcting for the warm light source.
Please upload your images to the “Warm Light” album in the Weekly Assignments category of the gallery no later than midnight Mountain Time (GMT-07:00) on Sunday, 5 October 2008.
