Abstracts
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 6:44AM 
What do you shoot in the middle of the day when there are few interesting shadows and the light is so harsh you can not make a good photograph. The same applies as for the overcast days. Do closeups and abstracts.
Many times you can overcome poor light by doing abstracts. Sometimes you will find an abstract where the harsh light enhances the scene. The photo above is a coil of flat cable near the parking lot at Bodie. I shot these twice, once in the harsh mid-day light and once in the late afternoon when the light was softer. The original thought was that the harsher light would make interesting surface definition. As it turned out, the angle of the sun was not the best for achieving the effect. The negatives made later in the day tend to have better surface definition.
I watch for abstracts most of the time. They can pop up anywhere and can be a very nice compliment to the series.
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