Posts Tagged ‘Atlanta Skyline’

Atlanta Night Skyline

January 15, 2010

At about 10pm last night, I went out to a part of Atlanta that may not be considered to be the best part of town to try and get some skyline shots of downtown.  For the longest time, I have wanted to do this and a few weeks ago I found what I thought would be a perfect place to do it.  The spot was a constriction site located across the street from a MARTA train station.  To get into the site, I had to do some crawling around fences, up some hills and the like.  I am sure that I wasn’t supposed to be there, but this looked just too perfect to pass up.

In looking at the shots afterwards, I am pleased with how they turned out, but I may go back.  Really for two reasons: 1st, I would like to play with the duration a bit more of my shots and 2nd, I ended up only staying for about 20 minutes.  It was very dark and as I said, not the best part of town.  So the next time, I will bring someone along with me if I can. Any takers?  :-)

Some technical info for those of you that are interested:  The first shot is a glimpse of where I was situated.  I set the camera to an ISO of 100, f8 aperture and kept the shutter open for 25 seconds.  The bottom 2 shots are the same except the exposure was only for about 8 seconds.