The afternoon light during the autumn months in eastern North America happens to be my favorite. Here is another recent photo where we were paying close attention to light and shadows. The shadow:highlight ratio on this image was pretty wide and I decided to expose the image so that the brightest highlights still had a slight bit of detail. I thought this would throw the shadow areas into complete darkness but I was pleasantly surprised that most of the shadows still had a good bit of information and ended up falling into approximately Zone II and III. (I’ll write more about the zone system in a later post.)
*technical info: 35mm, f2.8, 1/5000, ISO 200