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This photo was taken just west of the Chicago's "Loop," while standing on Fulton street. I snapped this at about 10:00 pm after a late night at iExplore's office, which is just a block east, toward the Loop. The effect is achieved by keeping the camera's shutter open for eight seconds. With that amount of exposure time, any shake in the camera becomes very noticeable, and results in a blurred photo. To prevent that, I used a tripod and remote shutter release. The long shutter time also meant that the image was going to come out overexposed (too bright). To minimize the overexposure, I shot with the smallest aperture possible. One thing I didn't realize was that the long exposure time was going to exacerbate the effects of lint on my lens -- hence, the "water spots" that are visible in the skyline. Live and learn. As I expected, the shot from the camera was too bright. But, that was a quick adjustment using Photoshop's auto-levels feature. I elected not to clean up the spots in the skyline. Camera: Olympus E-10 Mode: Manual Shutter Speed: 8 sec Aperture: f11 ISO: 80 Focal Length: 9mm Contrast and Sharpness were set to normal. Original File Size: 2240 x 1680, 1722K at 1/4 Compression The camera was fitted with a (dirty) Hoya HMC UV(0) filter. |
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