Generator Avenue

Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 28 February 2008 in Business & Industry and Portfolio.

This shot is rather vexing for me because the results are not completely under control. I did not use a starlight filter either on camera or in post-processing. When I took this photo I had just replaced the uncoated UV filter I had been using with a more expensive coated filter, because the uncoated filter was producing spots on my night shots. At this point I don't know whether this effect was produced by refraction from the new filter or it was just a product of the long exposure and somewhat foggy atmosphere. I also have no idea what those blurs of light that appear to be streaking leftward are, in the middle of the image, but I decided to leave them there.

EDIT: As I've been processing other images I'm starting to think the starlight effect is a product of the HDR processing. Note that this effect is not present to the same degree in Tuesday's non-HDR image.

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Comments (8)

Elisa from Massachusetts, United States

I like the B/W!

28 Feb 2008 5:55am

@Elisa: Thank you.

danthro from Suburbia, United States

i love it. great shot! great composition and detail and light. i'm not sure, but i might've cropped out a bit on the right since that structure moves my eye out of the frame a bit wondering what it is.

28 Feb 2008 5:05pm

@danthro: You're right. The funny thing is, when I was taking this I was thinking to myself how I couldn't get the framing the way I wanted it and might have to crop it later on the computer. Then it just got by me while I was fiddling with the B&W conversion. After reading your comment I took the shot of this I posted at JPG Mag down until I could get around to making the crop.

Ana Lúcia from Leiria, Portugal

Wonderful night shot, really beautiful.

28 Feb 2008 7:05pm

@Ana Lúcia: Thank you. Thanks for looking.

Will from Gainesville, United States

cool shot!

28 Feb 2008 7:28pm

@Will: Thank you.

the lightwriter from oosterwolde, Netherlands

Hi 12-and something! The stars are the effect of the small aperture-opening. f 22. Great shot though!!

28 Feb 2008 8:04pm

@the lightwriter: Doh!! I should have know that. And I didn't need f22 for this shot either --I should have opened it up some.

Shar from Regina, SK, Canada

I was going to commend you on the good use of the filter until I read your comments...still very nicely done!

29 Feb 2008 10:46pm

@Shar: Thanks. I think Lightwriter provided the explanation. Guess I just haven't done that much night work. I didn't experiment with night shots much back in my film days.

MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany

However you did it, the effect is quite surreal! I like this very much!

29 Feb 2008 11:04pm

@MadScientist: Thanks. I think Lightwriter is right. I've really only started to experiment with night shots recently and must confess to ignorance about the effect of aperture.