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California Street Noir

At first, I wasn't sure about posting something from this batch because they all had a bit of that San Francisco postcard quality to them.

 

"Oh look! It's a steep hill in San Francisco!"

 

But one of the last shots (just before the water-logged 5D stopped focusing entirely) had a hazy drama to it that kinda felt interesting.

 

Post-processing involved merely dialing the color temp down somewhere below "arctic" and pulling the orange out of those damn sodium-vapor street lights (there are blocks in San Francisco where they've started replacing these with modern LEDs and the neutral white they emit is glorious).

 

Anyway, a few people have said it has a Blade Runner feel and I'll definitely take that over "San Francisco postcard".

 

Canon 5D MKIII / 200mm (8f@1sec)

 

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Uploaded on January 19, 2016
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