A few years ago, I spent some time in Riverside Cemetery taking photos after dark. This was just before halloween, and I appreciated the candles that someone carefully placed there. Especially since Riverside cemetery is very dry and I would hate to be there if it caught fire.
While I enjoyed being there before dark, the thing that made my heart sing, was taking photos after dark. Thankfully it was still light enough to get focus and to be able to find what interested me without tripping over various monuments and tombstones.
Lately I’ve taken a night photography course from Jason Langer and Lynn Saville and one of the things they were trying to teach us was doing some exposure blending so the shadows wouldn’t be completely black. As a counterpoint, Joe McNally said, if you want to add mystery to a photo, don’t light all of it. I think you can tell what I felt was the interesting part of this photo.
That same evening I decided to do a bit of light painting on a tombstone. I do have to admit, I don’t know the historical significance of this fellow.
