Penning Photography Daily

Nice night scene of my house.

I had left my 50mm lens on my camera, in an attempt to learn more about it.

I was so busy during the day, that I didn’t take any time to capture anything with it. On my way home from my evening meeting, I just opened my car windows and started grabbing frames, changing to manual focus and mixing up the settings (when I could safely do so).

This was one of my last outside photos. I upped the light gathering by two f stops, which really pushes the limits of the camera’s ability without introducing a huge amount of noise - graininess.

In color, my first thought was wow, this gathered a ton of light and kept detail. I couldn’t get the color the way I wanted it, so I changed to grayscale, and fiddled with the contrast settings. I’m really happy with the result.

I get an almost spooky feel from the photo. The street light is really illuminating the foreground tree, which adds to the effect.

Fun pushing the limits. =)