{"id":339,"date":"2007-09-13T10:29:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T02:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepeer.net\/?p=360"},"modified":"2007-09-13T10:29:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T02:29:53","slug":"guilin-tower-photo-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/guilin-tower-photo-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilin Tower: A tale of photo lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reconnaissance is important, any military-type or pre-sale shopper will agree. Photographically onquering the Guilin tower was no different.<\/p>\n<p>On my summer trip to Guilin I did a little scouting before snapping away. On a map, on my cheap hostel bed, I plotted what I wanted to shoot, and then went for a little walk. A Guilin Tower were on my list. Early morning or late afternoon are the best times for photography (some may disagree). The light is colorful and warms up each frame.<\/p>\n<p>I visited each location and looked at how it was situated in relation to the sun. How would it look at 8 am? How would it look at 7 pm? I used a little imagination, and knowledge. <em>Luck<\/em> is another factor in photography that most pros never acknowledge. I\u2019m of the belief that most of the best photographs are accidental, and the artist is as surprised as those that view his or her work.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/badtwr.jpg?resize=300%2C450\" alt=\"Shite photo of the Guilin tow\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shite photo of the tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a Guilin tower shot at 9 am. Without putting too fine a point on it: It sucks.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/goodtwr.jpg?resize=464%2C689\" alt=\"Guilin Tower at Golden Hour\" width=\"464\" height=\"689\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guilin Tower at Golden Hour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the same Guilin tower shot on my return, after planning for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_hour_(photography)\">late afternoon light<\/a>. Much better, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Scout before you shoot is the nugget I pass along. With a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/bad-luck-boardrooms-and-bad-starts-plus-mcnuggets\/\">little <em>luck<\/em><\/a>, something great can be captured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reconnaissance is important, any military-type or pre-sale shopper will agree. Photographically onquering the Guilin tower was no different. On my summer trip to Guilin I did a little scouting before snapping away. On a map, on my cheap hostel bed, I plotted what I wanted to shoot, and then went for a little walk. A&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/guilin-tower-photo-lighting\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[180,280,281,305,517,715,719,720,722,973,1007,1052],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-guilin","tag-hostel","tag-hostels","tag-image","tag-morning","tag-photo","tag-photographer","tag-photographers","tag-photography","tag-tower","tag-trip","tag-walk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Guilin Tower: A tale of photo lighting - Asian Ramblings Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reconnaissance is important, any military-type or pre-sale shopper will agree. 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