Photo Ride

You've heard of a photo walk, I'm sure. It's where you walk around specifically looking to make photographs. Well, whether it's a thing or not, I did a photo ride on Sunday. I tossed a bike lock into my Lowepro Photo Hatchback 16L backpack and went on a ride to find some photos. I wanted to go to a park near my house but it was closed after 5pm.

I left about 2 hrs prior to sunset to scout locations for golden hour. I rode out to the closed park and started riding back to this location that I thought looked cool. I exposed for the sky which left the field and foreground posts dark but I was able to correct the RAW file. I didn't have a graduated filter and didn't use any fill flash.

Once I was done with first photo, I was about to leave and realized I should turn around and get the other side with the sun shining instead of the backlit version. So I whipped the camera back out and shot this one. I was working the colors and got the sky a little more purple/magenta to change it up a bit.

They say to make a great photo you should get closer to your subject so I got close to the posts acting as a fence to the power grid. The color version didn't look to special so I made this sepia-ish.

On my way home, I noticed a shopping cart thrown into a small retention pond. There usually isn't much water in there but today there was and it had a cool reflection from certain angles. It's also kind of sad looking. Again I went with the sepia tones since the color wasn't spectacular.

Here's another angle of the shopping cart. This one is straight black and white. The sepia wasn't working for me. Again it has a nice reflection and looks sad. I bet it was some kids that threw this in the pond. There is a grocery store just across the street.

I'm going to be doing this again. I'd like to go to the park before it closes. Too bad I can't get in (legally) during golden hours.

All the pictures from this set are included in this post but as usual, if you're like to check them out on Flickr, go there: Photo Ride