Thursday, December 10, 2009

2:10 AM


I stayed up way to late last night, and while getting ready for bed in the dark, my eyes began to adapt to the darkness and I saw all these shapes from lights outside the house. There is a streetlight out front illuminating the two distant bedrooms, and a neighbor's backyard spotlight is shining through the lace curtains to illuminate the wall in the right foreground. I love that this is unexpected, and different than anything I have shot before. It was REALLY interesting to begin to see more details as I became more dark-adapted, and then finally, to realize "Hey, this is a photograph!" For the technically inclined, my ISO was 3200 and the exposure time was 30 seconds at f/2.8

4 comments:

ken schwarz said...

This is a neat photo. I'm glad you mentioned the exposure settings; I would have hurt myself trying to figure out how to set the camera to capture this scene.
Hand held or tripod?

Ken Spencer said...

Tripod.

Liz Doré said...

wow this one is great!

Julia Pelish said...

Hi Ken, I am still reading your blog regularly - and I love it too. This photo is superb! Looks like dream.