Here we go again with another strange night shot from my now very-well-known bus stop. I had 10 minutes to spare, so I did some manual shooting again. This one was not really 10 minutes long but a 25 seconds exposure at f/8.0.
I particularly like the red lines going out on the right side, it somehow breaks the monotony/parallelism of the whole picture…
Yeah… not much more to say…
Those were actually the first pictures of the batch I started posting two days ago with Forgotten cold tracks leading nowhere and Let’s Play Ball. After missing my bus for a few seconds I decided I’d better walk around and try to take pictures instead of waiting, doing nothing, and “freezing in place”. So I took the tripod out, fixed the Lx3 on it and started experimenting around with low lights wherever it looked funny.
It started with a path going in the woods. This path is always really dark, mostly because my eyes are still not used to the dark when I arrived there. But on that day, with this strange light in the back and the reflection of the light on the snow it looked totally different and almost bright…
Then I moved closer to the road. The mix of colors on there is always interesting. The bus stop behind me projected some blue light on the snow, the cars passing by some white lights, the bus stop in the back of the picture some strange white-violet, the street lights some orange and the global atmosphere in the back a yellow-brownish-night tone…. that’s an eye grasping mix!
To finish with, I went back to the bus stop and took some pictures of the stairs going up the bridge from which I come down everyday. A bright patch of light surrounded by a forest-dark… this is finally the picture of this serie that I like most. It just lacks a living element crossing in the light – at best some kind of surnatural apparition (light painting?) – to make it even more surprising…
Let me know your impressions!
When the late bus is late well… take your camera out and start shooting!
In the process of changing jobs I also changed of work location. I now commute to Erlangen every day, a city 20km north or Nuremberg, which Beer fest you already saw here.
A new city means a new playground for the little photographer that I am. I had a little spare time a few days ago, so I walked the way to the center instead of taking the bus.
Erlangen is basically a student / Siemens city. Above a cafe rushed by students during daytime, below the exhibit room for Siemens Medical tools.
Expect more from Erlangen to come… remember, that’s my new playground 
J’étais samedi soir à une des plus grosses costume garden party d’Europe, le “Schloßgartenfest” de l’université d’Erlangen. Plus d’un milliers d’invités, tous endimanchés avec noeud pap’ et veston dans les jardins du château pour une soirée très sympa (malgré le prix de la bouteille de – pas si bon – vin avoisinant les 30€).
Au programme: 5 groupes de musique tous aussi bons les uns que les autres, plusieurs expositions d’art “lumineux” dans le parc, des défilés de mode (lumineux aussi), des Audi en exposition qui font rêver… et surtout un énorme feu d’artifice.
C’est de ce dernier que je veux vous parler rapidement car j’en ai profité pour tester le mode automatique “scène – feu d’artifice” du Lx3 (couplé avec l’”Unlimited Burst Mode” – prise de X photos en rafale) et je suis assez baba du résultat. Le rendu des couleurs est excellent, l’ISO est conservé à 80 pour éviter de pourrir les zones sombres de la photo et les paramètres sont juste pile poil bien pour de telles photos… non vraiment baba.
Je vous laisse d’ailleurs juger par vous même:
Pas mal pour un mode full auto vous ne trouvez pas?