View out the front windshield of a 2012 Ford Focus driving around Syracuse, New York. Nikon D700/11-16mm, 3s, f/16, ISO 1600, EV 0, 16mm focal length.
My wife drove me all over Syracuse, New York as I rode in the backseat trying to get a good long exposure photo out of the front windshield. Something I have had on my list of things to try for awhile now. I wonder if any of my readers from Central New York can guess where this was taken.
I used a monopod to allow me get a good grip on my camera during the 1 to 3 second exposures I used. The photo above is the only one from the night drive which came out fairly sharp in the car at speed.
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Cool! Seems that I’ve seen this somewhere before….. with the steering wheel on the OTHER side of the car 😉
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It is one of those cliché photos but I wanted to give it a try. Never know when it will come in handy on a trip or stock photo request.
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You must have a very patient wife! I can’t imagine my hubby driving me around just to get photos. Although now that I have a newly licensed daughter…
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She’s a good sport and continues to humor me through some nutty photography adventures.
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Aw, what a nice wife you have! Nicely done, Scott. Funkyslug will surely be proud! 🙂
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Could you or someone link me to FS photo? I tried to find it but could not. Thanks!
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Here ya go… http://funkyslug.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/zoom-zoom/
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Thank you! Oh, that’s why, his is a year old. I didn’t go back far enough to see it. Well, I got the steering wheel on the correct side. 😉
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That’s a good outcome of the drive. You caught the speed.
-Do you have the yellow sodium lights all over? I do not always like the color, but here it matches the dashboard fine.
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Yup, we got sodium lighting all over the place. I may try and play with the white balance to try and pull out more colors. The dash is a dark gray which picked up and balanced the lighting. Thanks, Carsten!
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I’m afraid the white balance will have a hard job. The light is practically monochromatic. But you could modify the color in PS if you want to change the look.
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Very true…like the idea of changing the sodium light color.
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You have a very nice wife. There is a touch of spaceship at this photo, and spaceship speed. I like it. Your car seems very modern to me, I´m used to cars which starts by crank. 😉
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Now, Birgitte, I do not believe that. It is a new car with a lot of convenience gadgets like satellite radio and the Sync system which lets me talk to the car to make phone calls and stuff. Pretty cool but, like many women in my life, it sometimes does not understand me. 😀
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I love this photo – so full of speed and colors. And driving you around like here – your wife must be one of the (few?) women around you, that both understand you and your car!
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Now the only question is whether you’ll ever get to drive it again. Eye-popping image, Scott – I really like it. As for the location–the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel of course! (On your way to a Red Wings game, were you?)
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What a wonderful, futuristic photo. Bet the folks at Ford would like it !
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