Where She Stood

Sue's potd on Friday was Where I Stand: the 'I' being Sue, of course.

She had seen on FB that the town has new light displays downtown, and she thought they would make for a unique photo. In her third year of following daily prompts, unique is not always easy to find. 

We hadn't seen the projections or where they were located, but we found our first splash of light on the sidewalk shortly after the 7:30 sunset. This was her first photo and the one that she eventually posted to the group.

Here is another using the same projection.

We ended up finding several other projections, Here are two of them.

Finally, we came to one with town hall in the background. It was her photoshoot, but when she can't take pictures of herself, she will use me as her tripod. So, she positioned me to see what composition she might like for herself.

We switched places, and I took a similar photo.

There are things that one doesn't notice at the time, but despite it remaining the same scene, her photo of me was the better composition. My pose had a gap between me and the lamppost, which was better than her being right next to it in my opinion. She also got the apex of the projection centered better, for I had been concentrating more on the town hall part.

This setting has potential, and I'd like to try this again sometime with my camera and using the tripod, for it was too cold for me to want to fiddle with tripods and settings on that evening. I think that I would have to eliminate that horrid streetlight in post. As long as I were to keep it over the sky and not the building that shouldn't be too hard to do, but perhaps we shall see.

We walked around and looked at the bridge lights once again, and of course I took a shot.

I was just passing-by this time, so I knew that it wouldn't be my best result, but sometimes you take the shot regardless.