We did our work so then we played. Jake had been to this very cool “ghost town” (folks still live there) called Elkhorn State Park. Being fascinated with history and old buildings, we made the drive to see it. It’s a cool place but choose to sum it all up with the experience with just the masons lodge. The exterior itself is quite interesting and I could have spent an hour with it but choose instead to head inside. The light was very interesting outside, it had to be moody inside.
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Here’s the upstairs dance hall inside the mason lodge. The light coming in was gorgeous! Just because I could, I did a 5 image handheld HDR just to show you all the information that was in this room. And while there was great light, great color and mood and had a technique that worked wonders, I didn’t have a photograph. To me, this is no more then a “I was here photo” which really doesn’t work.
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In the room were two chairs, this is one of them and it’s right and how I found it. Now I’ve got a subject for this cool light. All that color and detail really didn’t fascinate me, the light did. So I switched lenses to the 24f1.4AFS and shot at f1.4 and made the click that for me, summed up the ghost town, the hall, the light and the experience. In reality, it’s just a simple click.
Photos captured by D3x, 24-120AFS/24 f1.4 AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film