SOOC Sunday #2

Above is the screenshot from Bridge showing the Before and After of today’s SOOC feature.

This was a shot I took of a “ferris wheel” (it is actually called the Skyview of something like that) in Niagara Falls. It is a long exposure shot done at night (f18.0, 6.0 seconds, ISO 200) that I was actually quite happy with straight of the camera. I cropped it down to 16”x20” as that is the size of print I wanted, but it wasn’t actually necessary as the original composition worked quite well. I converted the image to black and white. This was something I struggled with for a little while as I actually found the slight blue colours around the edges of the image very interesting, but the crisp whites when converted to black and white won over in the end.

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Niagara Falls

I spent the past few days in Southern Ontario for business meetings and at night took the opportunity to visit some of the tourist attractions down there and of course made a stop at Niagara Falls. It was a little cold and windy, but well worth it, in my opinion. I just love how they light the falls at night. I waited around until the lights changed to variations I really liked and I think this version is my favourite.

These are the American Falls. The Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls are normally my favourite, but this night the straight, American ones really caught my eye.

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