Take the Same Photo (Almost) Four Times

Saturday 10 September 2022, 14:41 by Elvira Smit | 3,461 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

I used to love Spot the 7 Differences puzzles. I still do, but I never see them anywhere anymore. Luckily, you can make something similar yourself by taking photos in the same location at different times.

What do you get out of it? You train your eye. And you can be surprised by the surroundings right around you, which never seem to change (but do).

Small differences

Recently, I came across four almost identical photos in my archive. Those four photos show that everything is constantly changing. The light, the sky, the trampled patch of grass that floods when it rains:

Boring

It isn't a very exciting series.

But looking for subtle differences between the images, that is the essence of photography for me. I train my eye with it, especially with really boring photos.

I do the same with photos I receive via WhatsApp. They are often taken without much thought. I make a sport of getting as much information out of them as possible.

What time was the photo taken (how long are the shadows), what is in it that was not actually intended (an unintended reflection in a window)? And so on.

Studio photographer

Anyway, look closely. And I can often do that better through a photo than in real life. Thanks to the four photos above, for example, you can see what the different lighting conditions do to the location. Where the shadow falls, or whether there are any shadows at all.

Or whether the light is bluish or more pink. Once you see those differences, there is something to choose from. And suddenly you seem like a studio photographer, albeit someone willing to wait. And to keep an eye on the weather until it is exactly as you want to photograph it.

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