Dupli-city

People who hate me will not like this one, because I appear in the photo twice! Haha!

This is another experiment of mine. I wanted to play a bit with long exposures, as well as double exposures and off camera flash.

 

It was around 7:10pm when I took this one, so there was still some sun light. In order to take this one I chose the manual mode and stepped down my aperture to the minimum of f/22. I then tried different shutter speeds, in order to make sure that the photo will be well exposed. After seeing that 13 secs would produce good results, I went on the other side of the camera and started shooting. I tried to count about 6 secs for the first pose and then I switched lightning fast (!) to the other pose! :)

 

In the background you can see the Empire State Building!

Best viewed in Lightbox

 

Info

Nikon D90 with Tokina 11-16mm 2.8@ 11mm

Manual Exposure

ISO 200 : As a sidenote I wanted to mention that I listened to a podcast recently that suggested using the lowest NATIVE ISO setting when shooting long exposures. I used to use the Lo1 settings when shooting long exposures but I listened to the advice and switched to ISO 200.

13 secs (on a crappy tripod)

f/22

Shot RAW and processed in PS5 (after minimal work in LR3). I used PS5 because there was part of a bench on the right end of the photo. I didn't want to crop that part, because I wanted to keep the light (rays) in the picture. So, I used the new content-aware deletion in PS5 to try and remove the bench. I think it did a pretty good job!

I then went back to LR3 and following leonem's suggestions I changed the contrast and clarity..

Done