{"id":481977,"date":"2022-02-01T07:28:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lightstalking.com\/?p=481977"},"modified":"2022-02-01T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T12:29:04","slug":"blue-skies-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lightstalking.com\/blue-skies-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Blue Skies Are Not Always Good For Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
You look out of the window, the sun is out, there\u2019s not a cloud in the sky. You grab your camera, head to a photogenic location. You then spend several hours trying to work out why your compositions in blue skies photography are just not working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are told early in our photographic journeys that blue skies are good for photography. The default white balance is 5500, the mean degrees kelvin of cloudless midday in northern America. And of course, some shots look great with a blue sky. When I worked as an estate agency in London, we were often told that the exteriors need to be shot with a blue sky. This often proved quite a challenge in a wintery London. At least until the agents accepted that we could replace the sky in Photoshop. But I digress, today I want to look at why blue skies are not always good for photography.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n