Cilao in mist

How much detail do you need? That’s the idea I was playing with behind this image, how much information do you really need to understand what you are seeing, and what does it really take to invoke a response in the viewer.

 

When I saw this scene I was struck by the ghostly appearance of the town centre lit up, framed by the dark foreground trees catching a faint glow from the distant buildings, and the silhouette of the mountain in the distance.

 

I’m still not sure where this photo fits in with my other work but for some reason I keep coming back to it. I wasn’t really worrying about the technical aspects of the photo, I had no tripod, and there was very little light, plus it was misty, so I knew that whatever I was going to get was going to really push the limits of what my camera could capture, dealing with the issue of image quality was something I knew I was going to have to deal with later so it was either this or nothing, better to get a shot to see what you can do with it.

 

Choosing to deliberately work with what you know to be a technically bad file needs a mental shift to let yourself get the most out of the process.

Done