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DadaKopf

el tel

Love those pictures DadaKopf. The lighting in the bottom one is uncanny - it makes me think of a spine tingling Caravaggio piece. It's like a perfect blend of light and day. Where and how was it taken?

dalk

The bottom one is unsettling in someway. Think it might be the combination of the blurred figure and the decapitated lamppost...

peepingtom

the bottom would have been better without the person there imo. I know its impossible to capture, because it wasnt there, but an old fasioned car or something like that edging out of that road would have made it look awesome.

jcoote

the bottom one is fantastic looks like artificial lighting..i don't ever wanna go to that place

beans

The second of the two is my favourite. I like the empty space on the right and in the shadows. Distractions are the pedestrian and the slight hint of flare from the light. Had that pedestrian stopped to look around, with the light from above his head, I reckon it would have been the money shot

Inspiring shot

DadaKopf

beans wrote:

The second of the two is my favourite. I like the empty space on the right and in the shadows. Distractions are the pedestrian and the slight hint of flare from the light. Had that pedestrian stopped to look around, with the light from above his head, I reckon it would have been the money shot

Inspiring shot

Yeah, I have a few other versions of it with more of the laneway on the right. I took some with no one in them, one or two with cars zipping by. I was about to post up the empty one, but then thought the pedestrian on the right looks like a ghost. So the darkness, combined with the sourceless artificial light and the semi-erased figure seemed dramatic or something. In a scary way. The empty shot looks moody, but more tranquil maybe. I dunno. And for some reason, I love street light, especially when its source is invisible or obscured.

You're right about the flare. The problems with a crap lens. I'll Photoshop it out.

el tel wrote:

Where and how was it taken?

In Ranelagh. With a camera. Ah no, I went out the other night to deliberately work out how to use the manual white balance to capture that quality of light. I think artificial lighting is so beautiful, but unless you're careful, you get big ugly casts - green, yellow, eugh. So I metered a sheet of white paper directly below the lights and it balanced the street light to white. Problem was, the camera screen displays way brighter than the actual pictures when I get them in to the computer, so they ended up being dark. I didn an auto-levels, and this time it worked, but the others I took didn't turn out so well. There are different colour casts for nearly every individual light. I think digital cameras are they way to go now, except for huge prints etc., because you rarely now have to mess around with filters for the visible spectrum.

If anyone can point me to a tutorial to sort out really bad colour casts, I'd appreciate it.