Reine, Lofoten
What four weeks of grey light taught me
Notes from the middle of the Lofoten job, on photographing a place in the light it actually has.
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Reine, Lofoten
Three weeks into the harbour hotel job, I have seen the sun for about nine hours in total. The rest has been the soft, flat grey that most guidebooks leave out. The client knew this before I arrived, which is why I took the job.
Grey light is honest. It shows the colour of a red cabin as it is, not as a sunset would like it to be. It is also forgiving with interiors, because the windows stop fighting the lamps.
Working with the weather
The plan for each day now fits on a sticky note: rooms in the morning, coast at midday, harbour at the last light. If the sun appears, everything stops and we go outside. It has happened twice.
I will write more when the job is done. For now, the photographs from these weeks are on the wall, filed under the hours they were taken, which tells its own story about how short the days are up here.
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