Bringing Light to Darkness

There is a moment this time of the year, especially on Fourth Friday, when darkness begins to envelop Westerville while people are still traveling, shopping, and walking in the cool evening air. Before bedtime and Survivor.

It happened last night as I talked with friends in the middle of State and College. I interrupted our conversation to remark how the light had changed from when we began talking. Now, the sky was becoming deep blue with a hint of orange from sunset below the horizon, striking the thin cloud layer, and the lights of vendors and food trucks were more prominent, slowly becoming the dominant light source.

I had already planned for this moment with a complement of lenses in the car, where I switched zooms for fixed-focus fast lenses, all at f1.8 aperture. The smaller aperture meant I wouldn’t need to radically increase the ISO, which would result in digital noise, and I could isolate focus on a more narrow depth of field.

The result required little noise elimination and minor color correction to balance the cart’s LEDs with the yellow street lighting.

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