The other night I had a chance to explore a new Boston
skyline location that I had on my bucket list for many years. The evening light
was beautiful and a clear blue sky was expected. While driving to the location
I made multiple stops on Memorial Drive and captured the Boston skyline
multiple times at various lights. I ended up near Charlestown where I easily found
parking near the target location. I walked around a bit while twilight was fast
approaching. I knew there was not much time left but I was determined to find a
spot that allowed me to capture my vision. It turned out that the best location
to capture the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, the Custom House
of Boston, One International Place and parts of the TD Bank North Garden in one
image was only steps away from my parking spot. I set up tripod and equipped my
camera with a 70-200mm and 1.4x tele converter, making it an approximately 420
telezoom lens. Landscape versus Portrait format was my second decision but only
to be a no-brainer as a horizontal format did not work that night. There might
be a different spot for that but from where I was it would have had too many
distracting elements like street lanterns or trees in the picture. Once I adjusted
lens to my final composition I battled another challenge: cars driving past
close and fast providing some unwanted camera shake and eventual picture blur. To
overcome this obstacle I had to wait a couple of times until no cars were
flying by and that made the difference for the 2 images that were sharp, crisp
and of high quality. As usual the magic of twilight only lasted a few minutes but
I ended up with a couple of useable images despite the obvious challenges.
Aperture in this Beantown cityscape image was set to f/11 with
an ISO200 setting allowing for an exposure time of 6 seconds. During the
digital post processing I followed my usual workflow and eliminated dust spots,
minimally adjusted lighting, contrast, color saturation before sharpening the
final Boston photography image Boston Tall and Strong.
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Thanks very much for commenting on my Boston skyline photography artwork and latest cityscape gallery addition ~ so glad you like this image Moshin! I love to share my photography knowledge and hope my photographs inspire ~ looking forward hearing from you. My best, Juergen
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