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Prompted by Mark/Pandora's thread at http://e-group.uk.net/forum/showthread.php?t=30785 about his birthday being on the longest day of the year down under, here is a shot I put together a couple of years ago for an assignment on a photography evening class.
It is a wide-angle view looking south over the city of Salisbury, with the position of the sun on our shortest day, 21st. December, plotted hour by hour.
I think it shows quite strikingly why we people from northern climes are such antisocial and miserable scrotes. It's not just that the daylight hours are short - about 8 hours here, roughly 08:15 to 16:15 - but the sun never gets very high up. We are at 51 degrees north, give or take, so at its highest the sun is only 16 degrees above the horizon. Coming in at such a low angle an awful lot of its energy is dissipated before it reaches us.
There is no EXIF with this file (for sound technical reasons
). It was shot on an E-5 with the 7-14mm f/4 Zuiko at the wide end - I thought I had set it at its widest, but the EXIF reports the focal length as 8mm rather than 7.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out how I did it.
Ciao ... John
It is a wide-angle view looking south over the city of Salisbury, with the position of the sun on our shortest day, 21st. December, plotted hour by hour.
I think it shows quite strikingly why we people from northern climes are such antisocial and miserable scrotes. It's not just that the daylight hours are short - about 8 hours here, roughly 08:15 to 16:15 - but the sun never gets very high up. We are at 51 degrees north, give or take, so at its highest the sun is only 16 degrees above the horizon. Coming in at such a low angle an awful lot of its energy is dissipated before it reaches us.
There is no EXIF with this file (for sound technical reasons
). It was shot on an E-5 with the 7-14mm f/4 Zuiko at the wide end - I thought I had set it at its widest, but the EXIF reports the focal length as 8mm rather than 7.I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out how I did it.
Ciao ... John
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