Variety with a low sun

Here I was tasked with shooting an object with a low sun, moving around it to show the effects of frontal lighting (sun behind camera), side lighting, back lighting (shooting into sun) and edge lighting.

For this, I choose a simple footpath marker post as something of bright colour which I could move around freely:-

What I see is that as I shoot progressively towards the light, the image becomes more interesting, ultimately creating a dramatic sillouette, even of this uninspiring object. With less exposure, I might have achieved a rim lighting effect, but even without, I've got a dramatic black/white effect with maximum contrast.

By contrast, the frontal image is flat. Any texture in the wood has disappeared, unlike in the second shot where the light is from the side.

All shots were taken with 'auto exposure' and no attempt to bracket. So even with a very basic camera or phone, its apparent that varying levels of interest can be achieved in an image simply by modifying viewpoint relative to the light source.