A year ago, while walking back from school with my camera (I had covered
an assignment for the school newspaper that day), I took out-of-focus photos of holiday
lights and street lamps. The bokeh effects were neat, and while crossing the bridge over
the Winnetka Train Station I set my camera onto the railing and took several slow
exposure photos of the train and cars. After a police car slowly approached me,
I decided that what I was doing was probably sort of suspicious and
continued towards home.
Most of the time artificial light isn't optimal for photography. It'd duller than
sunlight and it lacks any vitality. Occasionally it can be sort of calming,
especially in the case of night photography. In the winter, since it was usually
night when I would leave school, I would try to be technically creative in the way
that I captured with light what to me was a pretty mundane walk home. The only
sources of lights were street lamps, vehicles, streetlights, and the city in the distance.
Winnetka
Taken in December 2011
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