What are you shooting?

Every recipe carries the conditions it was built for and the conditions that break it. Answer as much of this as you can be bothered to and the shelf sorts itself, with the reasoning shown so you can disagree with it.

Start from a scene

Grey day, street
Golden hour portrait
Neon after dark
Hard sun, landscape
Rain in the city
Indoors by a window

Light · what you are standing in

Direct sunOvercastOpen shadeGolden hourBlue hourWindow lightTungstenFluorescentNeonMixed light

Subject · what you are pointing at

StreetPortraitLandscapeArchitectureTravelFoodNatureDocumentaryNight / low light

Weather · out of the window

ClearCloudyRainFogSnow

Time · roughly

DawnMorningMiddayAfternoonDuskNight

Contrast · shadow to highlight

AnyLowNormalHigh

Camera · so we can rule out what will not fit

Your body

Clear

Answer as little as you like. Only the axes you answer are scored.

Nothing chosen yet. Pick the light you are standing in, or take one of the scenes above and argue with it. Nothing is ranked until you answer something, because a ranking against no question would be an invented one.

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