Photo a Day - 2014

This gallery represents a continuation of the Photo-a-Day challenge started in 2012 and continued through 2013. The goal is to continue to publish one photograph shot every day in 2014. There are no set themes, so the subjects will vary widely from day-to-day, although there will be a very strong emphasis on black and white as well as street photography in the third year of this project.
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Light the Way

Light the Way
04 February 2014 -- 35/365
North Providence, Rhode Island

I see this scene (without the snow) every morning when I go out for my walk. I've always thought there was a photo opportunity here, if only I could find it. With the snow we got yesterday, I thought today would be a good opportunity to find out. It's still dark when I walk - okay, I go out for my walk at 5:00 AM, so color me insane - and it was the lighting I wanted to capture. Seeing the lights from cars traveling up Smithfield Road (since I'm not the only crazy guy out at that time of the morning) I thought it would improve the composition if I timed it so a car was lighting up the top of the street as well. It added some balance that was otherwise missing.

Post processing started with a classic filter in Topaz B&W FX. I adjusted color sensitivity sliders, adaptive exposure, regions, contrast, and protect highlights. A levels adjustment was added in PSE.

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