Here is how Bergen looks at night.
Technical details:
Date/Time 23-Mar-2008 9:21:09 PM
Focal Length 13.80 mm
Aperture Value f/16
Shutter Speed Value 75
Lens Sigma 10-20mm
Processing : Stitched using PTGUI
White balance using Expodisc.
This photo is a 2 shot panoramic image shot using the sigma 10-20mm, i deliberately did not crop off the black regions in the foto to give it a kind of a 3D effect as if looking at a photo on a corner of a room on both the walls, i guess it works a bit here.
About the place:
This is Mount Bergen in Norway, a lovely place for some snow trek and a good city to spend a day roaming around.
The Story behind this capture:
We trekked the Bergen mountain in the morning, started by 10 and with cameras and water and bags, we started ascending, there was slight snow which was the main cause for the others to walk instead of taking a cable pull train up the hill.
The snow became heavier as we climbed and every place we could see started covering in white magic.
This view is particularly a famous view point of the Bergen city where the cable car terminates, there was no visibility at all due to the snow, then a thought lighted me up, how would the view be from this place at night, but if only the snow and cloud had to clear. Rest of the trek went fine and to my amazement the sky started to clear and the snow had stopped as we came down the mountain. All my plans were set for the night view shot.
So I started by around 8 waving off all my friends for dinner and got a ticket for the cable car, but it was only when i got into the car i came to know that was the last car for the day, but i cant miss a chance for such a lovely night scene, and i knew its going to be a long walk down the slippery snow track bacl to my place.
I set the tripod and composed the scene and started capturing the beauty with different shutter speeds to ensure i get a correct exposure. My hands were almost numb due to the biting cold of the night, so at last I have some sets of pics which i would be happy if some turned out to be keepers.
Started the descend and finally reached my hotel by 11 for a good dinner which my friends had got some take away for me.
