Lately, I’ve been working to improve my amateur photography, especially with more challenging night shots. In fact, ever since shooting the Vista Theater at dusk last week, it seems I’ve been in a neon mood.
This image was taken last night about 11 p.m., outside Paradise, a stark-white no-tell motel trimmed in fetishy purple neon, that overlooks Sunset Blvd. along Echo Park’s eastern fringes.
My skills definitely need honing: I failed to do justice to the sign’s intense purple lettering, but did manage to pull some interesting hues from other objects in the scene. (I’m a big fan of cartoonish color saturation, if only to fool Firefox browsers into rendering some sort of vibrancy…)
For other amateur shutterbugs who care about these things, this was shot in raw with a Nikon D70s, ISO 320, 3 sec. @ f3.7, 24mm focal length, and processed in Capture One Pro.
[Paradise Lost, 2008, Michael Imlay]
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