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Sun on the Golden Temple


Sun on the Golden Temple
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Copyright: Greg McGeough (blackwater82) (12)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-08
Categories: Nature, Architecture
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-04-19 6:45
Viewed: 549
Points: 0
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This picture was taken from the same position as the one with the snow but on a beautiful evening in August. It's pretty standard as far as postcard shots of Japan go but I haven't seen one yet where the light reflecting from the Temple was quite so brilliant as it is here. As much as I'd like to claim the credit for a technically great, premeditated shot, I was still coming to grips with my first SLR (Canon Eos 300D) and happened to have messed around the various settings into a fortunate fluke.

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Compositionally, I think this photo is fine. The temple itself is off-centre which is good, the tree on the little island provides some balance and the horizon is around the top third.
But what lets this shot down is the exposure control. I'm not sure what you metered off in order to take this, but you have succeeded in over-exposing the side of the temple whilst at the same time under-exposing the left side of the shot.
In any case, this was always going to be a difficult photo to take successfully given the range of light. I think that if you had metered off the very bright temple, the rest of the photo would have been very dark, and if you had metered off the tree on the small island, the temple would have been hugely blown out. It almost looks like you metered off the trees in the background as they are the only part of the photo correctly exposed.
I guess that sometimes, even though something looks great to our eyes, it's very difficult to translate that into a successful photo.

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