Feb 05 2009
Downtown Seattle At Night From 70st Overpass
It seems that it’s always dark this time of year! In the spirit, I’ve decided to learn more about photographing in low light.
Last night on my way home from class I took this shot from the 70th St. overpass. I was facing south towards downtown and used a 70 -300mm zoom lens at (200mm) to capture the downtown buildings.
The image is pretty darn noisy and will never be accepted by a stock photography house – but that’s the price you pay for longer exposures and exentended zooms. Doesn’t matter, I like it and will add it to my favorite night shot collection.
Place: 70th street overpass (of I-5) facing south. Sidewalks do have wheelchair access – but I noticed a ’sidewalk closed’ sign for that extends for several weeks.
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Exposure time: 20 seconds
ISO: 100
F/stop: f/11
