Willsy

Grey Light

A very Noire setting as a result of the thick wintery smog caused by smoke from home fireplaces. It envelopes our small town every winter....
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A very Noire setting as a result of the thick wintery smog caused by smoke from home fireplaces. It envelopes our small town every winter.
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Canon EOS 550D

settings

Aperture f/5.0 ISO 100 Shutter 13/1

upload_date

Jul, 2012

Views

2100

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+141

Awards

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Absolute Masterpiece

+19

Top Choice

Superb Composition

Outstanding Creativity

Jaw Dropping

Peer Award

Magnificent Capture

Exceptional Contrast

Superior Skill

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Top 30 rank

Top 30 rank week 5

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Marvelous long exposure shot

Thank you very much Casper =)

Nice shot!

Superb job! Beautifully composed!

Thanks a bunch for your praise =) It means a lot.

nice

Stunning!

Very nice composition!

What a stunning image! I love this!!!

Ultimate

amazing. Who is the master that inspired you ?

Thank you Kasper! :) This was partly inspired by Jackie Ranken, a multi award winning professional photographer from Queenstown, New Zealand. She's well known for her artistic approach to B&W photography. This photo was actually meant to be completely black and white but by pure accident I clicked the mouse and some of the original light color filtered through, I liked the result so much that masked out the lights because it made the image so much more eye catching.

Super capture, love it, well done!

je dis oui!

Stunning!

Premium

Great shot !

quite lovely! voted

congrats

Congratulations!

Congrats on feature beautifully captured

Congrats on feature awesome

A superb Composition PERIOD!!!
Great mood/softness/light all rolled into one excellent shot....nice treatment too I may add.
Congrats..Brian (Brize)

Beautiful

excellent shot, congrats :D

nice

Beautiful shot, very emotive. Congrats on your feature!

Platinum

Absolutely stunning! This is so gorgeous! Perfect shot! Congrats!

NICE! Congrats!

What a beautiful shot. Congratulations on the feature.

Very nice photo

PRO+

nice shot, congrats

Love it Congratulations !

Lovely. Congrats.

Wonderful capture.Congrats!

Very effective lighting, fantastic composition....very well capture. Congrats on the feature.

wow!great shot...reminds me of horror movies,and somehow reminds me of "midnight in paris" too! :D congratz

Very nice!!

Congratulations!

congrats on ur feature, stunning image

Gorgeous shot! Congrats!

Great shot!

Ultimate

Beautiful, nice shot.

Moody and dramatic...congrats

Platinum

Stunning capture! Congrats!

Wonderful Capture, Congratulations on your feature

Awesome shot, congrats !

Dido to all of the above! Congrats for exceptional work!

Sorry - spell check gone wrong - great leading line - love the lighting - congrats

Amazing! Congrats!

great capture!

Thank you everyone for your praise and feedback, It all means a lot :)

Click !

wow, you captured the fog so well

Awesome! Congratulations

PRO

Congratulations on your well deserved feature.

wondereful image!

Congratulations for featured,
You deserved it

Bless

Very nice shot! Congrats!

Beautiful shot!! I just got into long exposures and hope I can do something like this one day!

This is lovely!

PRO+

Love the fog! Congrats!

stunning

Made my day. :D

love it

Stunnin shot! Looks awesome!

Amazing shot!!!

Great. Congratulations on your feature!

awesome shot.

Gorgeous!

I absolutely love this picture! It is very mystical, great shot!!!

Great looking image. Well done

Awesome exposure i voted

So cool!

Platinum

Beautiful work. Voted. - Jake

Beautiful

Very nice image!

PRO+

Mysterious. Great Job!

Great photo!

Another great shot, you have some amazing art work!!

gorgeous shot!!

this is very neat! great shot

Awesome!

Magnificent shot, absolutely brilliant

Nice shot!

PRO+

An unusual and beautiful shot. Very interesting reading about how you did it.

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Behind The Lens

Location

I took this photo just on the outskirts of my hometown Alexandra in New Zealand next to the main highway leading into town, Google earth latitude 45Â°14'24.86"S and longitude 169Â°22'33.55"E.

Time

It's was late on a Sunday evening, if I can recall correctly the time was about 10pm.

Lighting

I didn't use any artificial lighting because the lighting was already incredible this night, seldom do we get such still nights with such dense fog. Because of this dense low fog every light source bled into the darkness around it making for such a gloomy yet stunning scene.

Equipment

I used my trusty old Canon EOS 550D with 18-135mm IS zoom lens on a tripod with remote trigger.

Inspiration

So many things! The lighting, the mood but I particularly liked that it was a simple compartmentalized scene. The silhouetted trees on the left provide some lovely fore-ground patterns drawing your eye into the image whilst the street lights and car lights on the right beautifully fade back beyond the trees drawing your eye back across.

Editing

Yes this photo does contain a small degree of post processing. Firstly I bumped up the contrast and adjusted the levels to deepen the shadows and make the silhouettes more crisp. Secondly I felt the image was too vibrant and red because the glow of the orange lights bounced off everything so I made a black & white layer on top of the original. I wasn't satisfied with an entirely black & white finish because the lights no longer popped so I started playing around with other filters until I accidentally brushed some of the black & white layer mask which brought through some of the original red layer underneath. I knocked the glowing light bulb off the top of my head and went to work masking around only the lights so the original colors bled through into the black and white layer and finally I had a result that really jumped at me.

In my camera bag

I normally pack my bag according to my needs on the day but when I take everything my bag will contain my Canon EOS 550D and 18-135mm IS zoom lens, a bounce flash for those dimly lit areas, a remote shutter trigger for when I need the steadiest of shots, my very handy B-Grip belt, my tripod when/if I need it, a variable ND Grad filter and UV filter, lens cleaning kit, two spare batteries and a spare SD Card.

Feedback

Be patient and observant, I walked around town for 4 hours this night. I was heading home when I spotted this scene so I was lucky it caught my eye. Also don't just shoot because it looks good try to think of ways to make the scene more interesting, look around you. In this case the scene was beautiful in itself but I still decided to add more by waiting to shoot only when cars passed through the scene, this added a nice abstract line of light that compliments the rest of the photo. Lastly and certainly not least, don't over think or over do your post-processing. Post-processing can make or break a photo so think of it like makeup, dab it on don't cake it on. And one more thing, using transparency masks in Photoshop will help save time and give incredible flexibility over touching up your photos. Masks are honestly one of the simplest and effective PP tools at a photographers disposal.

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