Although the best light for taking pictures on a scorching summer season day is usually at the start and finish of the day – the so-called ’golden hours’ – a clear sky does have its benefits. There’ll be plenty of gentle, enabling using low ISOs and fast shutter speeds for sharp pictures. Use a polarising filter to reduce glare and reflections in landscapes, and a reflector or burst of flash to open up the shadows in a portrait. Learn about how one photographer blurs the line between fireworks and flowers by pulling focus. Artists are imagined to see things other…