Generally, people think of rainy overcast days as dreary or ugly. To the photographer, however, this couldn’t be more wrong. Cloudy, overcast days are often the best days to get out and shoot.
The sun gives off very bright, very hard light, but on overcast days the clouds act as a giant diffuser spreading the light around making a big, soft light source. This gives you excellent contrast and saturation without the hard shadows of normal daylight.
Overcast skies often accompany rain. Rain has an added benefit of giving you beautiful reflective surfaces. Not only are wet, reflective surfaces nice to look at but they also help to further increase contrast throughout an image.
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