Moments of the streets
Do you often dine out? I love it. Of course, this can’t happen too often, I haven’t got that kind of money. But reassuringly, my city has abundant options in both the high and low end of the price scale.
Strolling the streets a Thursday evening, I spotted these young ladies having a quiet dinner at the top floor of a fast food restaurant, unaware of people pouring in and out beneath them. I’ll rather stick to the quiet option myself, I think. Don’t you agree?
Photography is about “drawing with light”. And don´t you think this enigmatic kind of illumination illustrates the point well?
I took this last autumn. I had been out for a couple of hours seeking interesting motives. Not really finding them, I was heading for the underground station, when I passed a football pitch. Noticing the scene put, or rather drawn, up by the falling light, I nevertheless got what I was looking for.
But I must admit it took me some time to nail it. Interesting enough, using aperture priority mode didn’t work out, even with a vast variety of ISO settings. So, I switched to full manual settings, using f/6,8, 1/60 sec, and ISO 2500. And after a little brushing up in Lightroom this was the result.
And if anyone is technically interested, I´m using a 50mm prime lens here.
Yesterday I got up at 5 a.m., grabbed my camera, and headed for the city. It was pitch dark, and with high ISO set, I lurched around at Aker Brygge, a combined shopping mall, restaurant area and financial district, seaside Oslo centre.
And in the darkness of the night this contrasty scene emerged right in front of me, with lights from the still empty buildings conjuring mirrored reflections on the water below.