Night Road [Canon 5D]
Point Reyes National Seashore
June 26, 2008
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On the drive out of Point Reyes, I stopped to take a few night shots looking back along the two-lane road. The foreground light on the road is from my car's tail lights. I left my car idling with the lights on so I wouldn't be totally invisible on the road and also to provide some needed illumination for the foreground. With night photography, all manner of things can serve as a light source to bring a little lighting to areas of the scene, including tail lights.
Of course, since tail lights are red, the light on the road was red, too. I corrected this in Lightroom by initially processing the image to have a cooler color cast. Then in Photoshop I did some further work to remove the remaining traces of the reddish color cast. Although I felt the reddish color cast on the road combined with a yellowish cast in the clouds in the sky (due to the smoky air and the light that was shining over the far hills) looked interesting, I wanted to create more of a classic night feel and with less color and a cooler color balance.
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