While Jess was off at Cub Scouts last week I took the camera outside to play around.
I ended up with two images I rather like. I started by taking long exposure shots of the intersection near our apartment complex. I tried some really long exposures like 3-4 minute, but I wasn’t particularly interested in the results. As I was messing with settings I heard an ambulance approaching, so I took a guess at how long it would take the ambulance to clear the intersection and snapped this 30-second exposure:
Once I was done with the intersection I moved into the patio area next to the shopping center. I took some shots of the fountain there and some of the moon rising, but didn’t like any of the results. I thought the lamps looked kind of interesting though so I took a bracketed exposure and blended the three frames into this shot:
I believe it is a high-pressure, mercury-vapor lamp which is why it’s so green.
Also, the camera club reconsiders everyone’s competition levels at the start of each year. In the “Pictorial” category I’ve moved up from “Basic” to “Intermediate.” A fairly large number of other members did the same though, so Pictorial Intermediate is now a pretty large group of people. I submitted two images this past week, but neither placed in the top 4 out of the 23 entries.