"Underground Parking - Daylight's Gone"
While this is the fourth and last image in this series, I may post a prequel of this same scene in full daylight tomorrow, as Picture of the Day. Then again, I may not.
This picture was from my first shoot of this street scene back on Sunday, May 1st - May Day. I missed twilight then; and on my next attempt, I also missed it - I had pictures I took from both before and after that magical time of day but I missed that "golden hour".
The garage and apartments are directy across 67th Street , on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, from where I've been working full time since early January - at Fox Television Studios, the home of Channel 5 in N.Y. Having worked solely as a freelancer for the last 11 years, at first I wasn't used to being in the same place every day. On the other hand, I also wasn't used to getting a steady paycheck every week. So I've adjusted to taking the good with the bad.
What first caught my eye about this vantage was the mix of light sources. From incandescent lamps behind some windows to sodium vapor sconces on the walls of the buildings and the downlights over the steps; to the fluorescent fixtures illuminating the garage and spilling out onto the street, there's a wide range of color temperatures represented in this image. The only light source I'm not certain about is whatever might be creating the lemon yellow light emanating from behind the security gate with the vertical bars, midway between the entry stairs of the apartments on the left and the ramp into the parking garage on the right. After a little online research though, I now believe it to be a low pressure sodium vapor fixture. Correspondingly then, the sconces and downlights use a high pressure, high-intesity sodium vapor bulb.
Camera Data
Canon
Canon EOS 5D
13/1 second
F/22.0
28 mm
50
May 1, 2011, 8:37:23 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Windows
59mm
This picture was from my first shoot of this street scene back on Sunday, May 1st - May Day. I missed twilight then; and on my next attempt, I also missed it - I had pictures I took from both before and after that magical time of day but I missed that "golden hour".
The garage and apartments are directy across 67th Street , on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, from where I've been working full time since early January - at Fox Television Studios, the home of Channel 5 in N.Y. Having worked solely as a freelancer for the last 11 years, at first I wasn't used to being in the same place every day. On the other hand, I also wasn't used to getting a steady paycheck every week. So I've adjusted to taking the good with the bad.
What first caught my eye about this vantage was the mix of light sources. From incandescent lamps behind some windows to sodium vapor sconces on the walls of the buildings and the downlights over the steps; to the fluorescent fixtures illuminating the garage and spilling out onto the street, there's a wide range of color temperatures represented in this image. The only light source I'm not certain about is whatever might be creating the lemon yellow light emanating from behind the security gate with the vertical bars, midway between the entry stairs of the apartments on the left and the ramp into the parking garage on the right. After a little online research though, I now believe it to be a low pressure sodium vapor fixture. Correspondingly then, the sconces and downlights use a high pressure, high-intesity sodium vapor bulb.
Camera Data
Canon
Canon EOS 5D
13/1 second
F/22.0
28 mm
50
May 1, 2011, 8:37:23 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Windows
59mm
