Finally, after a relentless winter that piled on endless snow, we will be actually wrapping up the absolute last and final shots of this long-protracted Tidewatcher project at week's end. After a little review of what would have been the finished product, it was determined that some additional shots were needed to beef up the storyline. Unfortunately due to the foot-and-a-half of frozen January nastiness that mercilessly lingered in each of the needed locations, this could not even be attempted until now. Finally - if all goes according to plan - these last shots will be done. Now I remember why this thing took forever to make as a short film, many years ago...
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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