Posted by John De Bord on May 27, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Hell visits suburbia
So here I am at my brothers house a couple nights ago and I hear "You better get the damn camera NOW John!" and it was about that time that I noticed the glow coming off the houses across the street. "Get your butt upstairs I will open the windows!" (he has the kind of windows that completely open up, no screens, no nothing....thankfully) I was kind of agonizing of having to shoot it from where I was at, and would have much rather been somewhere else, but I thought, this could be the photo opportunity for something VERY different, and set up the tripod and went to town. This is one shot of nearly 250 that I took.
I figured this was a nice opportunity to capture something in a way that I rarely ever capture nature, with a sense of man, and the title, well, it is kind of a play on words with what us Americans say, "Suburban Hell".
About the photo itself and technique---Shot on my Minolta 5D with Minolta 18-200 DT Lens, Singh-Ray CPL, blended 4 exposures, parts of which are HDR while other parts are not. I like working in this technique a lot, it gives some excellent local contrast and dynamic range increases. All shot in RAW and output in Lightroom, touched up in PS and Dynamic Photo HDR.
Love the colors and light...Jesus I missed that one!! It is amazing that how many of this you miss when you are working.....there is so much life outside of work!!! Thank you for sharing...great capture.... regards, Rajeev.
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4 repliesSo here I am at my brothers house a couple nights ago and I hear "You better get the damn camera NOW John!" and it was about that time that I noticed the glow coming off the houses across the street. "Get your butt upstairs I will open the windows!" (he has the kind of windows that completely open up, no screens, no nothing....thankfully) I was kind of agonizing of having to shoot it from where I was at, and would have much rather been somewhere else, but I thought, this could be the photo opportunity for something VERY different, and set up the tripod and went to town. This is one shot of nearly 250 that I took.
I figured this was a nice opportunity to capture something in a way that I rarely ever capture nature, with a sense of man, and the title, well, it is kind of a play on words with what us Americans say, "Suburban Hell".
About the photo itself and technique---Shot on my Minolta 5D with Minolta 18-200 DT Lens, Singh-Ray CPL, blended 4 exposures, parts of which are HDR while other parts are not. I like working in this technique a lot, it gives some excellent local contrast and dynamic range increases. All shot in RAW and output in Lightroom, touched up in PS and Dynamic Photo HDR.
---John