“夜雨霧濃山無形 水影明照彩霞城” / 夜之寧 Serenity at Night / SML.20130206.EOSM.01652.P1
Long exposure photography used to take a lot of time. I would travel to a remote location and stayed for hours, then circled back to the studio and worked on it for yet more hours. It still takes a lot of time but removing travel in the equation is far more efficient in the equation.
When I used to live in New York, I would sit in front of the Manhattan Bridge for hours with my tripods to do long exposure HDRs. But after 9-11, police would come and hurry me away, thinking that I am plotting an attack. Seriously WTF? Yes, I bet that a terrorist would spend 3 hours sitting under the bridge with a tripod just so you can see that he is analysing the structural engineering for attacks. NYPD has always been a hassle to me and is very annoying.
So more Hong Kong awesomeness for me now is that I can just mount my camera on the tripod at home and do landscape photography before I go to bed at night. This is a 30-second exposure and everything gets mixed to a beautiful blur. I love it so much that I have decided to try my hand at some Chinese poetry which rhymes.
夜雨霧濃山無形 水影明照彩霞城
# SML Translate
+ 夜: night.
+ 雨: rain.
+ 霧: fog.
+ 濃: concentrated, thick. Describes the fog.
+ 山: mountains.
+ 無: no, not.
+ 形: forms.
+ 夜雨霧濃山無形: On a rainy night, the fog is thick and the mountains are left with no form.
+ 水: water, lake, ocean, sea.
+ 影: reflection, image.
+ 明: bright, clear.
+ 照: image, light, bright.
+ 彩: rainbow (color).
+ 霞: red cloud, after glow.
+ 城: city.
+ 水影明照彩霞城: The water reflects the bright lights from the city to render a city painted in the colors of a rainbow.
# SML Workflow
Photographed with the Canon EOS M + EF 17-40 f/4L mounted on a tripod. Noise reduction in Lightroom 4. Processed in Photoshop CS6.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-06 02:07:29 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 4958 x 3306
+ Exposure: 30.0 sec at f/4.0
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°26'58" N 114°12'26" E
+ Serial: SML.20130206.EOSM.01652.P1
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
“夜雨霧濃山無形 水影明照彩霞城”
/ 夜之寧 Serenity at Night
/ SML.20130206.EOSM.01652.P1
/ #寧 #serenity #SMLSerenity #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #夜 #night #水 #water #山水 #landscape #霧 #fog #攝影 #摄影 #photography #lights #reflection #香港 #HongKong #中國 #中国 #China
“夜雨霧濃山無形 水影明照彩霞城” / 夜之寧 Serenity at Night / SML.20130206.EOSM.01652.P1
Long exposure photography used to take a lot of time. I would travel to a remote location and stayed for hours, then circled back to the studio and worked on it for yet more hours. It still takes a lot of time but removing travel in the equation is far more efficient in the equation.
When I used to live in New York, I would sit in front of the Manhattan Bridge for hours with my tripods to do long exposure HDRs. But after 9-11, police would come and hurry me away, thinking that I am plotting an attack. Seriously WTF? Yes, I bet that a terrorist would spend 3 hours sitting under the bridge with a tripod just so you can see that he is analysing the structural engineering for attacks. NYPD has always been a hassle to me and is very annoying.
So more Hong Kong awesomeness for me now is that I can just mount my camera on the tripod at home and do landscape photography before I go to bed at night. This is a 30-second exposure and everything gets mixed to a beautiful blur. I love it so much that I have decided to try my hand at some Chinese poetry which rhymes.
夜雨霧濃山無形 水影明照彩霞城
# SML Translate
+ 夜: night.
+ 雨: rain.
+ 霧: fog.
+ 濃: concentrated, thick. Describes the fog.
+ 山: mountains.
+ 無: no, not.
+ 形: forms.
+ 夜雨霧濃山無形: On a rainy night, the fog is thick and the mountains are left with no form.
+ 水: water, lake, ocean, sea.
+ 影: reflection, image.
+ 明: bright, clear.
+ 照: image, light, bright.
+ 彩: rainbow (color).
+ 霞: red cloud, after glow.
+ 城: city.
+ 水影明照彩霞城: The water reflects the bright lights from the city to render a city painted in the colors of a rainbow.
# SML Workflow
Photographed with the Canon EOS M + EF 17-40 f/4L mounted on a tripod. Noise reduction in Lightroom 4. Processed in Photoshop CS6.
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-02-06 02:07:29 GMT+0800
+ Dimensions: 4958 x 3306
+ Exposure: 30.0 sec at f/4.0
+ ISO: 100
+ Flash: Did not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS M
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°26'58" N 114°12'26" E
+ Serial: SML.20130206.EOSM.01652.P1
+ Series: 寧 Serenity
“夜雨霧濃山無形 水影明照彩霞城”
/ 夜之寧 Serenity at Night
/ SML.20130206.EOSM.01652.P1
/ #寧 #serenity #SMLSerenity #CCBY #SMLPhotography #SMLUniverse #SMLProjects
/ #夜 #night #水 #water #山水 #landscape #霧 #fog #攝影 #摄影 #photography #lights #reflection #香港 #HongKong #中國 #中国 #China