moonday monday

[June 25, 2010 @ 9:15PM]

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I couldn't tell you how I did this, except that I was fiddling with the manual controls, and stumbled upon it. Thankfully, I don't have to rely on my own memory. According to the histogram, I was using aperture priority, spot metered, and then experimented with the camera's onboard record modes. In this shot, I pulled pack a little on saturation and cut way back on contrast. The full automatic moon picture produced the orb as an unrecognizable glow that was uniformly white.

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Then, I forgot to switch back to area metering, and here's what I got:

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Oops... let's switch that back right now!!

complimentary colors

One streetlight overwhelms the otherwise dark corner, leaving an enigmatic yellow tint to everything it touches. Not so for the rest of the lights. They were instead, quite blue... almost opposite.

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This shot taken while standing in the middle of the street, using a tripod and a long exposure. It was cold that night. Very cold. I wonder what the neighbors thought when they saw this fool standing out there, looking at a tree. I'm sure they could hear my teeth chattering from inside their houses.

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I was happy with the shot. I was also happy with the mug of hot cocoa I drank as soon as we returned home.