Student Work of the Week: Times of Day Assignment

For the "Times of Day" assignment, students were asked to shoot digitally on the daylight (sun) white balance setting, shooting every couple hours from morning to night, using only natural light (natural light = outdoors). What became evident was the shift in color temperature: cool blue casts seen in the early morning and evening, and warmer tones mid day and at sunset. When shooting with film one must compensate for a color temperature shift using filters. When shooting digitally this can be done in camera by choosing the correct Kelvin temperature in your white balance settings.

Craig's Contact sheet shows the times in which he shot each frame, and a color shift is visible. Early morning is quite blue, midday is much warmer (click image to enlarge):


Notice the drastic color temperature shift in these images taken by Alex Lubrano (left image taken at 6:45pm, Right image taken at 4:45pm):


Both Loreal and Jessica did a beautiful job of adding a narrative to this assignment by creating a story with their series of images taken throughout the day.

Jessica's Series:



Loreal's Series:



This image by Michelle Murray quite beautifully demonstrates the color temperature difference of early morning (6:30am) light and tungsten (lamp) light.