Friday, April 11, 2008

Day 4 (Night 1): Lightspeed, Hypercity, Driving Real Fast

I phoned my friend after work and decided that we should hang out and drive around town with my tripod in his car. This is what I came up with after a few hours of shooting:

Lightspeed

I like this photo as it is somewhat ambiguous.

Is it the visor of motorcyclist speeding through the city in the Night?

Or is it a tripod shot through the moon roof of a friends Honda?

This photo was created by combining three photos slightly together. The first layer which is the one I liked the most, a second to add a bit more "pizazz" to the look of the lights and third to cover up the ghostly hair of my friend who was driving and often would pop into the exposure of the shot.

Hypercity

This photo was taken at 12:03AM... Or so says the digital clock in my friends car. This is my favorite shot of the night. An experiment for the most part. In this case, rather than combining them to hide mistakes, this photo was created by a few different photos overlay'd over each other to varying degrees of opacity in photoshop on three different layers with no other modifications. The bottom layer (the still shot) full opacity, and the other two shots barely visible.

This what the two other photos looked like:




While both of them are pretty cool on their own. I really liked how they sort of made everything come together in the finished combination.


Honestly, I'm just writing stuff now because I apparently broke the layout of the site by trying to make things look pretty T_T. Damn you blogspot! What's wrong with you? Gah! Oh well. I think this is enough writing to fix the problem and not look stupid.



Driving Real Fast

This photo was taken by sticking the camera + tripod through the moon roof itself. I'm not sure how technically or artistically sound this photo is. However, I like it just the same even if it is not a great photo. =D


That is all for the night/morning. I'm working again tomorrow, so expect more night shots. Probably not as cool or crazy as the ones tonight but hey, who knows. =3

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