Any tips for overcast/dull light photography?

[KeyserSoze]

Given the last few days have not been great for weather, Im finding it hard to be impressed with pics taken on my new 400D.

Should I just not bother on days like this, do I really need the sun to flesh out those colours? If anyone has cool pics taken on dull cloudy days I would like to see them!

[baffled]

Try some b&w photography, shoot in RAW and then convert once back home.

[KeyserSoze]

B&W good idea!

[John C]

Anything where this sort of soft, diffuse light is a help - portraits, studies of form and shape, things with too much contrast under sunlight to shoot well...

[puddleduck]

Should I just not bother on days like this, do I really need the sun to flesh out those colours? If anyone has cool pics taken on dull cloudy days I would like to see them!

Colours are much better on cloudy overcast days like today IMHO... sun washes out colours.

Grabbed this snap on a cycle ride this morning, straight out of the camera


http://www.odysseus-software.co.uk/S5Pro/DSCF0527-web.jpg



And this B&W today as well when I stopped from a breather from my cycle ride (shot as B&W in-camera)


http://www.odysseus-software.co.uk/S5Pro/DSCF0517-web.jpg


Both shot as JPEG.

Neither are great shots, but - living in this country - if you only shoot on "nice" days, you'll shoot very little.

And I shot this, on a cloudy dull day a year or so back:


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/104/305732636_b0b4f99a4a_o.jpg


I like overcast days with nice diffused light for photography - beats deep shadows and washes out colours IMHO.

[KeyserSoze]

Woah amazing! Nice one puddleduck.

My photos never look so sharp, is it down to the lense? Are you using a tripod?