Just a pretty pic: snowy night

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Nothing special about this, other than I thought it was pretty...

I always enjoy seeing how different things look when photographing at night, and fresh falling snow is always photogenic -- so as I was leaving downtown during an unexpected snowfall last week, I pulled the R-D 1 out of its bag and shot off several frames.

A few colorfully-bundled walkers would have made this a much more postcardy picture, but everyone except me had dashed for their cars!

Exposure at the ISO 1600 setting was 1/500 at probably about f/1.2 with the Canon 50/0.95 lens (I stopped it down a bit to discourage the streetlights from flaring out.) White balance was set to tungsten; guess that's how I captured the interesting mauve hue from the streetlights. This color was NOT evident to the naked eye!

The R-D 1 collected quite a few snowflakes during the 10 minutes or so I spent shooting and shivering; I was pleased to see they didn't have any harmful effects, although of course I was careful to brush them off before putting the camera back in the bag!
 
That's a very nice shot and it makes me glad to be in Georgia!! 😀 (I'm not a big fan of snow and cold weather!)

My work took me to a very nice subdivision this evening and some of the Christmas decorations were gorgeous. In my neighborhood there are a few people who put out lights and some of them are rather gaudy. The lights I saw in the other subdivision were well designed and thoughtful. I'm tempted to take a camera and tripod one evening and capture some of them on film.

Walker
 
Nice shot, JLW.

The R-D1 has a tendency to a)render the colours in their right hues but also b) to show colours that we wouldn't notice/be able to see in the first place. One of the most interesting aspects of the R-D1 to me is its treatment of colour. I can't get enough of it.
 
Yes, nice shot. Reminds me snowy nights back in the 'peg, Manitoba.
 
Nice shot and very impressive performance by the RD1 at 1600.

Bob
 
Lovely shot. I wish we could get that kind of weather here at Xmas.

I've also noticed how the RD1 seems to pull colour out of a scene. I used to think that the Olympus E1 was the best at that, but I have to say that the RD-1 takes some beating.

Gid
 
that reminds me of a few local scenes I plan to shoot once we get a couple more inches of snow.. thanks for the inspiration!
 
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