Re: Nathan's PAW 46: Danish clouds

Nathan Wajsman offered:
You are right about wet streets and late afternoon. In fact, I am now
scanning some Scala images I took Monday afternoon in Copenhagen; it was a rainy day so I decided to use the M6 rather than the DSLR. The only problem is that at this time of year in Scandinavia, twilight is at 3 p.m. so you do not have much time...<<<<<<<<<<<,

Hi Nathan,
It begins to darken here these days and bascially evening darkness is upon us with city lights on about 4.00 - 4.30 and it'll continue to darken until 21 Dec.

The good thing is, we can shoot early and not be out until midnight clicking. The people of the city will begin decorating their home's this coming couple of weeks with Christmas lights, some with great displays of Santa Claus and huge villages on their front lawns. Many streets are swathed in decorative lighting so it makes for 3 weeks of interesting picture taking.

And the really good part? We rarely have to put up with that lousy wet white stuff they call....."SNOW!" The real stuff. ;-)

The closer we get to the 25th, the number of lit locations explode all over the area with the best "city tours" map in the local paper, so it makes it easy to find best places. Therefore the next three weeks can be a plethora of wonderful picture locations. People, wide eyed kids and uncountable house picture locations.

So this year my new 20D will be well put to use.;-) However, I have a project that should make it even more interesting. I have a special bracket for the tripod that I can mount two cameras at the same time side by each.

So I intend to double shoot everything . 20D and the R8 together. This allows me the opportunity to have exact focal length lenses on both and shoot identicle pictures simply by tripping the shutters on both at the same time.

I think it will produce some interesting comparisons. Hopefully I'll get a couple of keepers. If not, big deal! ;-)

ted








Subject: Re: Nathan's PAW 46: Danish clouds


Thanks, Ted! I have photographed this spot in the morning and late afternoon; the afternoon shots are never as nice. You really need the contre-jour of the rising sun at this location.


Nathan

Ted Grant wrote:

http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_46.jpg
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2004/2004_46alt1.jpg<<<<<<<

Hi Nathan,
An excellent way to cover industrial areas and make them "pretty!" Or in the case of shooting travel assignments for tourism where the area isn't very pretty or the weather is ugly during daylight. Heavy miserable overcasts and or showers.

Just wait till the end of the day and the town begins to move into the twilight zone of the day. Shoot then with the lights coming on and even if the streets are wet they have their own "visual sparkle" from the wet streets reflections or if the sky opens and the last rays of sunlight make or create a sky as you have in these pictures.

Good ones and a good example of how to pretty things up. Developers love a photographer who can make an area look great when it's ugly depressing areas of industry. ;-)
ted


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