Confetti

Here’s an old shot that I made when I was first playing around with night photography and light tricks and such.  I’m pretty proud of it.  I shot it on my very favorite film – Kodak Ektachrome 160T, which is a slide film.  The T means it’s Tungsten-balanced, which works exactly the same as the Tungsten setting on your new fancy-pants digital camera’s white-balance setting.  It basically gives everything a blue cast, which is intended to compensate for shooting indoors under incandescent lights, or even better, it’s good for shooting outdoors under those awful sodium vapor street lights.

But I’ve found it works very well as a nighttime film, because the blue cast makes everything look… well, night-timey.

This shot was made at a little park down by Pawnee and Broadway which celebrates water conservation.  When I saw the quote, I decided to add some “confetti” of my own by dragging a sparkler through the frame.

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