Terran Melconian: Lights

This is the street under the Longfellow Bridge. It's been slightly edited, mainly to remove the green-speckled noise in the areas which should have been dark (the noise is primarily green instead of red or blue because of the film's green-shift in long exposures).

This picture was taken with a $100 Olympus point and shoot on a plastic 4" tripod. If you're wondering what the area looks like, and why the hell there's no wall visible between the light and the railing, check out the previous exposure from the same roll, where I forgot to turn off the flash.

Update: They've since replaced the lights under the bridge, so don't go there now expecting to be able to take this picture. :/

You may be wondering how I took this picture. Streetlights, after all, aren't blue... are they? They are when they're first warming up. This particular light was having problems; it was going out and starting up again every few minutes. I stood around waiting, and took this picture when the light first started up. It was cold, so given how long I had to wait for each picture, I took only one... and it came out beautifully. I love it. All the colors here are completely honest, and the composition pleases me more than the best of the many pictures I usually take of the same subject often does.

I liked the concept of this picture the first time I saw it, but it took several tries to get the sky and lamp colors the way I wanted them. In the version you see here, I modified the sky to bring it more into line with what I wanted. On the light, there's a spot in the center with no detail because I used the digital camera, but I decided it was good enough and went with it anyway; I'm tired of retaking this picture.

I like the look of this light fixture. There's no particularly interesting story behind it.

This light is just over the Harvard Bridge from Cambridge.

At first I didn't think much of this picture, but every time I saw it, it grew on me. Thus, I had to go back and scan it again because I had originally decided it wasn't worth scanning full size.

I don't remember the details on this. Looking at it now, I like the sky and the trees very much, but I think the light itself is too dark.

Taken down by the waterfront somewhere. I think I took this while we were waiting to grab one of the swing benches.

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