Evening Lights

Received an email from a friend working at Region Stavanger, a company responsible with promoting tourism in the greater Stavanger area the other day. She was trying to find if I have a photo of a particular spot in the city. It turned out I didn't have any which fits the bill  ... I was waiting for snow for the right mood of the place and clearly snow wouldn't be coming for another couple of weeks.

So, I sent her a couple of potential images but not exactly what she wanted. Not eager to wait, she used one of it anyway as this month's cover image for Region Stavanger FB account.

6pm 31.10.13

7pm 31.10.13

While I was at it I thought, why wait for snow ... there could be some nice images in there somewhere to be made in these days of winter gloom and rain. These images were made a few evenings later when I was in town. These were  images that they wanted ... I still think it looks better if they were some snow.

11am 1.11.13

6pm 1.12.13

And on one of those evenings, I popped by with a tripod and shot similar scenes with the EOS100D and Tokina 11-16mm. The above were all taken with a Sony SLT33 and Sony 11-16mm handheld around 5pm.

10pm 3.12.13

10pm 3.12.13

11pm 3.12.13

I thought that was kind of fun. The colors are different from both (could be the WB or the glass itself). The Tokina flared worst/better not having  a lenshood ... I broke it at Lista after slipping on ice one dark night!

The golden colors in the earlier part of the evening is more pleasing somehow ... the night is purely lit by tungsten; the early evening was lit with a mixed of tungsten and what's left of the remains of the daylight. I think I prefer the later.

I should venture out more in twilight ... the time between light and dark ....