My Fair Lady

[thapamd]

I can probably fill up a decent sized hard drive with all the Seattle skyline shots I've made over the years. Here's one I've never posted anywhere before. It's a 3 shot pano stitched in Photoshop CS2. It was taken from Kerry Park on Queen Anne Hill. Enjoy!

In the coming days/weeks/months, I'm sure I'll post many other skyine shots of Seattle...just bear with me please.

I find that the best time to take "night" shots is acually about 20-30 minutes before sunrise or after sunset. There is still enough ambient light to give nice shadow detail on the buildings, the sky will be a nice shade of blue (or if you're lucky it'll be red or orange or yellow with clouds), and the building lights will have come on to give that "night" time feel. Next time you want to do night photography, try it just before sunrise or just after sunset. You may like what you get.

1Ds MkII & 24-70 f/2.8 L lens. Tripod, cable release, MLU. A bubble to level the camera and the tripod.

[Nina]

Very nice image. It has a futuristic appeal and the sunsetting really brings that out.

[jar_e]

Awesome! Love having the mountain in there, and the lighting is just superb!

Great shot,

Jared

[thapamd]

Very nice image. It has a futuristic appeal and the sunsetting really brings that out.

Thanks, Nina! It's funny you mention "futuristic appeal," as a friend of mine claimed that it reminded him of a scene out of Blade Runner.

[thapamd]

Awesome! Love having the mountain in there, and the lighting is just superb!

Great shot,

Jared

Thank you, Jared! I'm happy you enjoyed the shot. This is my kind of lighting also.

[thapamd]

For some reason the image got deleted from my server so here it is agian: