Thames Wharf, Fiddler's Island

Dynamic Range. The extremes of light and dark which in bright sun, the camera cannot capture with a single exposure setting, which consequently come out over- and under-exposed.

When this occurs, the shadow areas become blocks of solid black containing no detail, and worse, the highlights (normally the sky, clouds and light walls) are pallid, washed-out and blank.

The shadow areas would have become solid blocks if the university had had its way.