Friday, October 25, 2013

30 Days with the Fuji x100s: Day 17

Old Town Alexandria Light Trails

I always think I'm getting a ton of great pictures and I get maybe one or two. And it's freezing out there!

I took the tripod this time and looked around Old Town for a place to shoot light trails and a model.

I tried Duke Street, where a cop came whizzing by:


I like the safety of being on the median, but the lights look so far apart!

Then I tried another intersection by the train station:


You can get close to the traffic, but the lights are synced strangely, so you get a lot of cars sitting there.

Then I tried the underpass by the train station:


Winner! I like the ambient lighting and buses go by so that's pretty cool. I have a model lined up for next Wednesday so I'll be right back here to try again. Hopefully, I can add a human dimension to the light trails.

While I was waiting for the sun to set, I played around with lens flare to see how bad it could be on this camera. It's can be quite strong and I had a lens hood on, but I can't complain too much since I was shooting directly into the setting sun.


This guy was waiting for his girlfriend to arrive. She arrived about 5 minutes after this shot.

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