EXTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

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Most photographers know that one of the best times to get exteriors is after sunset when the sky has the same luminosity as the interior artificial light. In the winter months this is easy, because the sun sets early in the Northern hemisphere. I would also like to recommend photographing in the same manner with pre-dawn light. This method is harder because it means getting up very early, but the results can be excellent.

Morning pre-dawn light looks quite different than evening views. If the exterior job that you are doing is worth the time, why not do the same scene late evening, and early the next morning? Both scenes will have great light, but the two photos will have significantly different hues and tones.

I took this photo a few weeks ago for friends at the architectural firm Murdock & Boyd, of the E. & P. Senechal Centre in New Brunswick.

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