Last night, I took my camera along with me on my walk with Asha. I live next to a neighborhood that has many large old Victorian style homes and the neighborhood really gets into decorating for Halloween and Christmas. It is a several block area that is aglow with lights and massive decorations at this time of year. My picture taking was actually quite unsuccessful because, when I attempted to take a shot without my flash, the lovely colors of the lights came out but everything was blurred due to the slow shutter speed. When I used my flash, everything was washed out. At any rate, here is one picture I took, which I cropped and lightened quite a bit in Photoshop.
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Wow- just like in the movies, neighborhoods like this. Not a familiar California sighting, in my experience. Nice photo.
Thanks. The neighborhood is a great walking neighborhood and the houses are very cool looking. I just wish I could afford one of them! I am like the poor relative who lives in the house out back. 😉
Thanks, the photos didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to at all, so I felt pretty disappointed in them. I guess if I didn’t have other expectations, I would not have minded this one so much.
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Did you notice the figure of a person in the house on the right looking out the window at you as you snapped?
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I didn’t before, but I sure do now. Thanks for pointing that out!
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The photo effect is very neat though. It looks like a cross between a negative and a positive giving it a luminescence that’s almost ghost-like and very appealing. Good job for a test shot.
-bub
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Thanks bub!