Light in Photography - LIGHTING - Sunlight - Effect of Time of day - Mixed Lighting - transition from daylight to artificial

Light, like life is both constant and variable. As pieces of yin-yang which mesh to form a perfect circle, our challenge is to perceptively reconcile the harmony of this dichotomy.

As the light falls at dusk there is a gentle transition that we are normally not aware of. However, as photographers we need to take this transition into account. This is no more evident in a city environment where we have the inter play of falling ambient daylight and the gathering artificial lights of the buildings etc. This series of images demonstrate how subtle this transition is and how small the window of opportunity to harmonize the two factors is. The trick is to shoot when the ratio of light from the diminishing light of the dusk matches that of the city lights - too soon, as in the first examples. and the lights of the city are not bright enough. Too late and there is not enough ambient light in the sky and the scene falls into darkness with the city lights against black. Through these examples we can also observe how exposure effects the vibrance of the image.