Madnessmatrix | Eric Bowers Photography

Four tripod mounted RAWs // HDR // Shutter: varied // Aperture: f/20 // Focal Length: 17 mm // ISO 1250

Friday evening Dec. 19, 2008 as the sun was going down.

Here’s the thing - I haven’t been feeling well at all for awhile now, and thus have not done well at getting new photographs, but I was doing well enough today that I went out for some dusk shots to coincide with the whole backdrop of the Plaza lights “thing.” Maybe I’ll get back into it all soon, I am hoping.

I didn’t quite get to the Plaza early enough, so dusk was already well underway before I got there and set up my rig. I might have gotten off more shots tonight had I started earlier, but not long after I took this shot, the sky was a total black, which I usually find boring and bland for nighttime cityscape photographs. A few nights ago, maybe last weekend, it had snowed a bit prior, and we had heavy cloud cover at night. That made the sky cast a glow of radiant orange as the city lights bounced off the cloud cover. I saw it when I was out trudging around for groceries and couldn’t help but think that if I didn’t completely feel like crap, it would be a prime photography opportunity. Whatever, didn’t make that one.

Oh, and sorry how I relentlessly complain in all my posts recently. But, I’m going to complain some more before I finish up with this one. Canon. I’m effectively “married” to Canon, as it is said, owing to my collection of several Canon lenses I use on a regular basis. So whenever I decide it’s time to get a new camera body, odds are it will be another Canon (likely a 5D Mark II). But, why does my 5D (or other Canon models for that matter) have no ISO display in the viewfinder? I cannot tell you how freaking irritating this is, because the photo in this post was shot at ISO 1250 by accident, which is far too high of a sensitivity for the conditions. Though to Canon’s credit, the 5D does perform very well in terms of high ISO settings and noise, so the 1250 ISO setting didn’t completely ruin the composition. And the new 5D Mark II is said to do even better.

/rant

talk at ya later