When there is the sun, it is always bright outside than inside a building unless of course an artificial lighting is introduced. And artificial lighting will usually be or never be brighter than the sun. Then it strikes my mind, since day turned into night and night tuned into day, there must be that time of the day where the deep colour of dawn or dusk matches the exposure of the inside of a lighted building.
In most cases of my point and shoot photography, time of day was never an issue. It is what I saw, I like and then I shoot. This time it is all about time and planning. I woke up early well before 5.00am, after my solat subuh, I drove like crazy to my desired location, a mosque about 10km from home. Why a mosque? Well, it's about the only building with lighted interior at this time. I reached there, stopped by the road side at exactly 5.20am. and took this shot spot-metering the lighted interior.
Still got a bit of blue sky and lighted interior, but this picture it was taken from the roadside. A few minutes earlier would have been a dark blue sky. I need to go over the fence and take the shot without the fence blocking the lower part of the building. But there was a drain and I need to go to the main entrance and walk back to the same angle of view which requires me to drive and park the car and walk a hundred metres or so.
While I got to the desired spot it was already too bright and lost much of the blue spectrum. Increasing the exposure to match the interior would over-exposed the sky. Took several shot but I managed to capture the birds in flight when I was just about to pack.
I had another underexposed shot to capture the orange spectrum but in the process loses the details of the mosque lighted interior.
All in all, the window of opportunity was less than 10 minutes for right exposure I was looking for. It was getting brighter by the minute and as I walked back towards the car it was already too bright but I had this surreal shot of a floating mosque.
After I got home and upon reviewing the photos, I realised I made one BIG mistake!. I had the ASA set to 800!. After all the rush, dragging my tripod and remote trigger I ended with a grainy photos ..
In most cases of my point and shoot photography, time of day was never an issue. It is what I saw, I like and then I shoot. This time it is all about time and planning. I woke up early well before 5.00am, after my solat subuh, I drove like crazy to my desired location, a mosque about 10km from home. Why a mosque? Well, it's about the only building with lighted interior at this time. I reached there, stopped by the road side at exactly 5.20am. and took this shot spot-metering the lighted interior.
Still got a bit of blue sky and lighted interior, but this picture it was taken from the roadside. A few minutes earlier would have been a dark blue sky. I need to go over the fence and take the shot without the fence blocking the lower part of the building. But there was a drain and I need to go to the main entrance and walk back to the same angle of view which requires me to drive and park the car and walk a hundred metres or so.
While I got to the desired spot it was already too bright and lost much of the blue spectrum. Increasing the exposure to match the interior would over-exposed the sky. Took several shot but I managed to capture the birds in flight when I was just about to pack.
I had another underexposed shot to capture the orange spectrum but in the process loses the details of the mosque lighted interior.
All in all, the window of opportunity was less than 10 minutes for right exposure I was looking for. It was getting brighter by the minute and as I walked back towards the car it was already too bright but I had this surreal shot of a floating mosque.
After I got home and upon reviewing the photos, I realised I made one BIG mistake!. I had the ASA set to 800!. After all the rush, dragging my tripod and remote trigger I ended with a grainy photos ..
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