Color Abberations PDX

elaine: 21st May 2005 - 08:12 GMT

cor, lovely. low light photos always have a certain mojo if you can pull it off, specially for the quietude and loneliness of the scene. the colours can be a bit weird, and if you start fiddling with them you can get some interesting effects, but also a bit lost. i suppose it depends if you 'need' to be 'realist' or whatever, but even the raw image is never raw anyway really, even with digital cameras there are already variables built in, and i don't suppose for a minute this is how things looked to the naked eye, but is it really that important?

jeeff: 21st May 2005 - 15:28 GMT

i like this a lot. the photos are beautiful and crisp, but the slant on them really makes them look different than your average night-time tripod shots. also, great detailed text info accompanying your photos. i've been playing around in low light with my camera too, trying to create artificial daylight. i'll have a post soon about it.

Peter: 23rd May 2005 - 13:12 GMT

viva night photos... i love that last one, too, where the camera seems to make delicate halos and artifacts around the lights. sweet. thanks for posting!

stillseeingred: 23rd May 2005 - 18:34 GMT

Thanks a ton for the comments. I was on the rocks about continuing the night photography, but thanks for the added encouragement. Cheers

Justin

stillseeingred: 29th May 2005 - 01:49 GMT

I'm 99% sure that they are natural gas cannisters. That was a weird spot in between the NW Natural Gas plant and the ARCO gasoline storage place, so, it's some kind of fuel. Whatever it is, its heavily secured.

Zag: 12th Oct 2005 - 07:10 GMT

The way the light's been captured coming off the lamps is uber cool...

jennpants: 10th Sep 2007 - 20:10 GMT

Yeah, night shots are always fun. The effects are due to what's called "reciprocity failure." In short, the films chemicals are made to really only be exposed for a short amount of time...when you set up shots that are longer (say, when you're taking photos at night!) the chemicals begin to react differently than they normally would -- creating all those awesome colors and highlights that you don't see in person with the naked eye! Yeah, I'm an art nerd...keep up the awesome work!