Late Night in Miami
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Help me decided which one I should print? I photographed this image last week one night out of my many late nights awake in Miami, Florida. It’s the view from my Miami flat. I will post the west-side view next Monday here on Photography For You.
To photograph this image I used the Nikon D200 with a 18-200mm VR Lens, a tripod and left the shutter open for 25 seconds. With the shutter opened as long allows more light into the camera ; with the appropriate F Stop you can capture and image similar at night. Remember the lower the F Stop (example F Stop 2.8) gives lets more light into the camera, it’s like your eyes wide open. If you squint it’s like a higher F stop (example F22). Find the balance that gives you the best results, it’s not hard to photograph like this at night. Give it a try!
I am happy I have this photograph to keep with me forever because I will look back at my past someday, and this photograph printed in one of my homes will help me remember the late nights and hard work I put forward.
I was about to start the second part of The Blast Tour this night; I changed my mind because it didn’t feel like the right time but I will keep you updated with that. The book of the first location in Savannah is on it’s way!!! So which one should I print large, the photograph in color or the photograph in black and white?
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Sergio Masellis
9.14.2009
I like the color one. There’s so many colors in that one and you really don’t get that from the black and white one.
Mike Tinnion
9.15.2009
Hey buddy,
How you doing? Hope all is well have’nt skyped in ages also I have put some more pics up on my site i want you to check out let me know what you think etc. Your site looks nice mate good work keep it up.
Speak soon
Mike
Ken
9.15.2009
Definitely the B&W, which I understand is contrary to what most of your other respondents say.
B&W because of the lines and the time of night the image was shot. Perhaps colour had it been shot at dusk with still a bit of light in the sky but because the sky is black, the contrast with the light/lines is much more interesting in the B&W… more abstract. Our brains think in colour so with the B&W, it’s more about the lines and less about the scene/view. There isn’t really one particular thing your eye focusses on in the shot so as a whole, I find the B&W more appealing.
steve
9.16.2009
the black and white has a greater sense of depth, because there is no distraction with colour.
Dwayne D.C.Tucker II
9.16.2009
Artvers!
I want to thank you all for helping me choose the color image. I just want to make a few points to answer things mentioned about the photographs. Before I get to that I am reflecting to the point of this photograph.
I photographed this image from my balcony as mentioned in the write-up, because I wanted an image to remind me of the late nights I spent up here in Miami.
It was a quick set up of the tripod, placing the camera, then photographing the image so I can freeze the moment; then I went back to working.
I chose the color version to be printed, now I will be able to work on it in Photoshop, quickly used the clone-stamp tool to remove a few spots and fixed the white balance briefly in Lightroom.
My reasoning for considering the black and white version is because I’m freezing a piece of time that will bring back many feelings and by removing its color I can help save the ‘old time ago’ feeling.
This photograph was NOT to be entered for a prize piece or to be published as a famous photograph by Dwayne. It’s for my personal memory of my apartment that will hang in my homes.
Again thank you!
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DT.