DowntownLA - Night Shots of the Walt Disney Concert Hall
Armed with a 1970's Italian made Bogen tripod that my dad gave me really paid off tonight. That old Bogen weighs a ton comparison to the light weight flimsy tripods of 2018. I'll take beefy and heavy any day of the week (protection for my camera and final images).
Okay so I went on a rant about tripods; but you gotta have one to these kinds of shots. So I'll dive into the inspiration.
Shot above is of the Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Frank Gehry in 2003
BTW!!! If you want to get some tips on night photography I wrote a tutorial based on this shoot (link):
https://steemit.com/photography/@lightenup/urban-night-photography-tutorial
I rang up my buddy Josh this morning about doing some shooting. Normally when we shoot together we get a couple of models and shoot some artsy glam stuff. That's fun but we decided to do something urban. We both happen to live in LA, "Let's go shoot some fucking long exposure shit downtown!"
...and that's what we did. Loaded up some tripods, bags of lenses, parked and walked downtown
Above shot: close up of 110 Fwy*
Another shot of Walt Disney Concert Hall
I was waiting for a city bus to go by because the interior bus light would produce some crazy bright blue light from the interior. But all the downtown buses had wraps on the outside and no light was really emitting.
Long lens, I think I used an 85mm, for this shot of the 110 Fwy
This shot was taken about 10minutes after the sun went down. Just getting warmed up with setting up the tripod, adjusting camera settings. Getting acquainted with the gear in the dark.
I must really be digging the in-tight shots. The wide wasn't speaking to me.
This was actually on the walk back to the car. Sundays you're allowed to park in loading zones. So parking really isn't an issue on Sunday.
***Above shot: on the way back to the car I heard a car approaching and just quickly pulled this trigger on this shot
Gehry building close up (85mm)
Some funky monkey clouds; I'm not sure what was going on here. Probably a 4 or 5 second exposure.
End on a Wide note
Cheers Steemians!
Michael
This is too cool! Just too cool!
Hahaha...thanks my man
You can learn some of the techniques in this tutorial I made on night photography: https://steemit.com/photography/@lightenup/urban-night-photography-tutorial
Will do, man. Will definitely do!
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STOPsuper cool!
Demasiado Espectacular!!
Bellas imágenes @lightenup eres genial, me encanto tu blog
Mil gracias :) Eres una artista? No conozco Venezuela, pero estaba viviendo en Colombia hace 24 meses. Tenga buen día !!
@lightenup It is a wonderful way to capture the light of events given in microseconds, an art in which you trap time (which according to some experienced counselors in other dimensions ... there is no time) However, your post has captured the evidence, less of the light.
captured in 15-30 seconds
Wonderful!
Wow, very nice! The parallel lines ones are awesome
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