Alight: brightly lit lighted up highly illuminated.Aglow: emitting light from within less than bright often seen as reflected not direct a source elsewhere.Ablaze: highly radiant with bright colours and bright light sometimes associated with fire and strong burning sources.The descriptive words that will get you started on your journey to know light and to know how to talk about light. To talk about light, understand it and describe it we need the proper words.īelow is a list of some of the adjectives of light. It is the vocabulary of the description of light as we record it. This vocabulary is not referring to the equipment, the techniques and actions of photography. Talking the language of light is a way to be able to talk the language of photography. Every major light source has a name and a way to describe it. Every tiny flash of light has a description that applies to it. The words that describe light are used to access its power, hardness or softness, shades, tones, hues and graduations. Photographers only know photography as much as they know light. Let me know about any experiences you have had with extreme daylight, long or short.Light words for light the vocabulary of light language of light adjectives for light Just know that many, but not all, lodgings offer blackout curtains. I think blackout curtains in a hotel are mandatory, though you may be fine. This is great until it’s 11 PM, you’ve forgotten to eat dinner, and your hotel room is still bright as day. In the middle of summer, there will literally be usable daylight for 24 hours a day. Just remember that at the extremes of that range, a few bright stars and planets will still be visible. In the middle of winter, it means there will be usable daylight from about 10 AM until 5 PM or so. Makes sense- the days have to go from 4 hours of daylight to 21 hours of daylight! So on a week -long trip, your last day would have about 45 minutes more daylight than your first day. From mid-February through mid-May, each day brings about 6 ½ minutes more of daylight. You may notice that the CHANGE in daylight is dramatic, though, since you’re on a steep part of the curves above. So what does that mean for a family visiting Iceland? If you’re there around spring (March or April) or fall (September or October), not much-the days will be about the same length as at home, give or take a couple of hours. Just for fun, let’s compare the graph above to the same data for New York City:Īnd, just for more fun (well, fun for me because I like graphs) here it is extended over 3 calendar years: You’ve seen temperatures like those in Iceland, but you simply haven’t seen daylight like this. Hopefully the idea of the sun never setting for more than 2 months gives you an idea of how different this is from anywhere in the United States. Using this definition, the sun never sets (so it never gets below 6 degrees) from around May 20 th until July 25 th. Technically, it’s the times when the sun rises above 6 degrees and sets below 6 degrees. In fact, let’s instead consider “Civil Twilight” ( ) which loosely translates to the time between dawn and dusk. There is still some light outside of these hours. Now, this is hours between sunrise and sunset. In the middle of December, there are right around 4. In the middle of June, there are over 21 hours of daylight. I think the bigger difference is in hours of daylight. And with the wind as it can be, you might be wearing that hat some summer days as well. Winter just means you wear an extra layer and a hat. But most of the time, you’re still wearing a jacket. Yes, you can see some summer days in the 60s or (rarely) in the 70s. Those summer highs are only in the mid 50s! And the winter highs are all the way down to the … well, the mid 30s. But if you think about the numbers, I believe the variation isn’t all that dramatic. The graph does what you would expect, with July and August being the hottest months. And there is of course a difference in the temperature by time of year: Most people assume this is because of the temperature. The time of year you visit Iceland will have a definite impact on your experience. “ Midnight Sun” by Hafsteinn Robertsson is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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