Surreal Lighting

It was a foggy night and I was on the hunt for a photo opp. on my drive home from work. I had my camera with me and a tripod in the trunk, but the only places I saw possible shots were impossible to stop at.

So I forged along until I was only a couple blocks from home. The construction site here was lit by 3 large street lamps. Their arrangement created really awesome lighting on the leftover equipment, and the fog helped to soften the light and add some halo effects to the scene.

I tried several different exposures, but it was very difficult to meter this scene. I got a couple right, though, and liked the results.

In Photoshop, I applied some 3.5px radius sharpening to the construction vehicles to help bring out details and shadow edges.

I plan on returning to this site soon with a model to see what we can come up with.

Camera Model: NIKON D50
Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 31.0mm
Exposure Time: 6.000 s
Aperture: f/11.0
ISO equiv: 200
Exposure Bias: -0.67
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)