Principal photography for the Tidewatcher project was completed today on the sandbar between West Haven, and New Haven Connecticut. There is still a great deal of post-production work to be done, and a number of "pick-up shots" to be taken, but the whole thing is moving along well, and the images on the camera's LCD screen pretty much match the ones in my head, so this thing looks to be a pretty effective telling of the story. My thanks to Lloyd Meyer for playing the title role of our friend the relentless and shadowy Harbormaster!
I love night photography. Something about a photograph made at night embodies the Cinematic. Traditional still portrait photos are shot in airy, well lit studios. Movies have night scenes on location. I want my images to look like movies. For me, that often comes down to creating the look of night, rather than capturing it using only whatever light is available and adjusting the camera accordingly. Over the last few years, I have noticed a number of films where much of the action takes place in a night-scape lit by the orange/amber glow of sodium streetlights. While I had never been a fan of that light in real life, I decided to try my hand at creating the look for a photo project. Since using real sodium streetlights would mean either a very high (and grainy) ISO, or long, long, long shutter speeds, I determined pretty early on that I would be using flash. I will spare you all of the technical details of why using flash to repli...
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