My Favorite Haunt [Get Pushed Round 3]

This was my first week in the flickr group Get Pushed. The purpose of the group is to take a challenge from a partner assigned to you each week. For this challenge I was paired with Tony of T&J Photography. He has a wonderful stream that you should really view. He is a very versatile and clever photographer! You won't be disappointed.

He said of my stream, "everything is bright and beautiful, so my challenge to you is to shoot something at night with a long exposure in b&w. I will let you choose the subject, but I would like it to convey kind of a darker mood." [Ouch] This was a wonderful, scary, and difficult challenge for me as I have never really done anything like this before although I have always wanted an excuse to try.

One of the biggest challenges for me was the fact that I live in the country and my car was in the shop all week, so I was definitely 'pushed' to figure out what I could do with the night lights available. Another obstacle was the weather. We had rain almost each night which made it even darker for shooting. I learned a lot about many of the settings on my camera for shooting at night. Then I had to figure out how to get the last of Tony's requirements of a 'dark mood.' So I used a flashlight below my face to give a ghost-like appearance standing in front of the lens for a short period of the total exposure. Now besides the fact that I had to hurry to get to the right place for the shot to have enough time to get an exposure, I don't like being on that side of the lens. As you can see in the lower left corner of this image, my usual model, Pita, only wanted to watch from afar. It was a great challenge, I learned a lot, and I'm glad I did it. Thanks Tony for your push!

Taken in: United States / Idaho / Colburn (show map)

Taken on: July 22, 2011

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