I shot a final image for Palm press last week. It was a shot of the LA Theater down town LA for a Christmas card. Cool old theater. We had them put Happy Holidays on the marquee. I arrived about 1 hour before sunset to get things set up. We changed the marque and I set my self up across the street with my new Canon D5 Mark 2.
I love this camera. It has a large preview screen that makes it very nice to view the images. I was never comfortable judging color and exposure on the screen OF my IDS. The screen was to small. The D5 is large enough TO ATTRACT ATTENTION. I had 3 different people walk up and look over my shoulder while I was shooting and scare me to death. One girl got right next to my head and commented that it looks good. I almost jumped into traffic she startled me so bad. People could see the screen and were drawn to it.
I shot until 1 hour past sunset. Its the best time to shoot with neon and city lights in my estimation. The sky goes very blue and the city has a Max Payne look about it. I love these simple type city images. Very easy to do and they look great.
I keep my Aperture the same and lengthened my shutter speed. There is only a small window when the Sky, Neon and city lights are at the same exposure. It came and I shot as many versions as I could in the 15 to 20 minutes that I had and then it was over. Great fun.
