The thing about walking around with a Holga at dusk, sans tripod, is that if you want to get a shot off, you’re pretty much left with two options. Hand held, or under-exposed.
Well, there’s a third option, and that’s the one I usually go with. Cross your fingers and hope for the best. I feel that’s what I got here. Had I properly exposed this, I think some of the drama would have been missed, and the headlights from the cars would have been blurred. Normally I try to compose the lights out of the shot, or wait for them to disappear completely. Here I tried to compose them out, but with the Holga and the parallax error built in, what I thought I was getting and what I actually got, were two different things.
I think the lights make the shot, and had I a tri-pod, a better sense of what was going to be on film, or anything different than what I had when I tripped the shutter, this shot would have come out much different. Chalk another one up to a lucky break.
July 30th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
This is wonderful Garrison…what makes it for me is the faint highlight on the roofs repeating away into the distance followed by the wires…the lights are very important as they break up the expanse of black…damn fine shot.