My Hardest Shot Yet

My Hardest Shot yet!:  The County's Administration Building in Downtown Stockton was one of our greatest projects to date. We contributed nearly 70 very large prints to the Artwork within the building.  When the project was nearly complete, we were asked to do a night photo of the building with the building all lit up.  We had to coordinate the shot with the facilities department who controlled most of the interior lights via computer.  Some of the remaining lights were manually controlled, and being good employees people kept turning lights off as we were trying to get the shot.  Brigitte was in constant communication with  the facilities staff, but they could never get everything on at the same time.  Outside the building, I was on top of my car with a tripod in the middle of a live and very active intersection.  Passers but were curious, Police kept driving by looking at what we were doing, and traffic never stopped. Passing cars posed yet another obstacle because I did not want the light trails in the photo, so I had to wait for breaks in traffic. In all we shot for nearly an hour in changing light conditions from dust to dark, and in the end the shot below was my favorite.  We printed this image on a sheet of Aluminum and had it custom framed. The image is 48" X 64" and is on display in the lobby of the same building.

Image was captured at: ISO 400, 6 sec at F.20 on a tripod using mirror lockup and a shutter release.

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