DSS#78 - Passage

SimpsonBrothers · June 4, 2011

Creepiest photo I've ever had to take.

This is Hawk Hill Tunnel in San Francisco at the Marin Headlands.

Place is really spooky late at night.

How do you like my painting?

ghinson · June 4, 2011

Pretty awesome idea. I like the off-center composition. I like the eery blue of the tunnel. If I'm nitpicking, I wish the light painting either had more definition in the individual light streaks/lines, or less definition (i.e., more like a ball of light without breaks).

JR303 · June 4, 2011

This is really good. And yeah, I would believe spooky. My only nit is the light at then end seems too "staged". I don't really know how to explain it, but it's like it's too concentrated. You use a flash or a flashlight?

SimpsonBrothers · June 4, 2011

JR303 wrote: »

You use a flash or a flashlight?

To light the tunnel I used a 580EXii set at -1/3. For the ball, it is a battery powered road flare on the end of a string. Tunnel height is about 20', tunnel length was about 1/4 mile.

JR303 · June 4, 2011

Thought about this on my way into town. Is there a curve where you could place the flash so you could see the light, but not the source? I think my biggest problem is that the ball looks to "perfect". I think light from around a corner might add an aire of mystery.

SimpsonBrothers · June 5, 2011

There is no curve in the tunnel, I painted the ball about 1/2 way down.

JR303 · June 5, 2011

That's halfway? wow, I bet that is spooky. Well, I hope you didn't take all that the wrong way, it's a very good image, just what I envisioned when I saw those fantastically textured walls. If it makes you feel any better, I probably wouldn't be down there at night at all. Might be spiders. Don't do spiders.

MammaPaparazza · June 5, 2011

JR303 wrote: »

That's halfway? wow, I bet that is spooky. Well, I hope you didn't take all that the wrong way, it's a very good image, just what I envisioned when I saw those fantastically textured walls. If it makes you feel any better, I probably wouldn't be down there at night at all. Might be spiders. Don't do spiders.

Spiders....:nah...what about creepy people? I wouldn't go there because of creepy people (present party excluded), you can squish a spider...

I think it's an awesome photo, but like everyone else said, the end isn't doing it, it doesn't look natural. I really like the idea mentioned above about a light past a bend, that stinks that there isn't one.

WhatSheSaw · June 5, 2011

I agree with the others that there is something not quite right about the light. It might also work to make it more ghostly, more unreal.

DSS#78 - Passage

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