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Friday Slide Show: The Reading Table
8 December 2023
The angle of the sunlight is lower here this time of year, allowing it to sneak through the blinds and light up the bunker in charming ways. Taking a break the other day, we just had to stop and take a few snapshots of the little reading table next to our reading chair.
We thought we might try a few shots with the 43-86mm Nikkor that Kirk Tuck mocked yesterday in his apology to his medium format TTArtisan. Then we thought we might try our 50mm f1.4 Nikkor. But it was too early in the morning to focus manually, so we stuck with the 18-200mm Nikkor on the Nikon D300.
We had to squat to keep the verticals from converging too much but we enjoyed finding a few compositions among the pile of Library of America volumes stacked on the table.* And you thought we were behind on our reviews!
We've often wondered if the angle of the sunlight in the morning might be mistaken for evening. If morning light is a bit more blue and evening light a bit more golden.
The physics guys inform us there's no difference in the color balance. And who are we to argue?
But if you're behind the camera, you surely know whether it was morning or evening. Then, too, we know this room in the house, which is all sunshine on sunny mornings, is all shade on sunny afternoons.
Don't ask about foggy days.
We kind of like the possible confusion of morning and evening light though. But we've already spilled the beans for these images. So you're stuck seeing them as images shot at 9:30 a.m. on a sunny morning.
We hope you enjoy that conundrum as much as we do.
