Paramount
Sign for the Paramount Theater; downtown Denver, Colorado.
I shot this on my Christmas lights trip to downtown last weekend. The Paramount, for what it’s worth, is just a fantastic place to see live music. Not the biggest venue, but absolutely one of the classiest.
It’s also got this great neon sign that’s a pain in the rump to capture at night. The letters light up sequentially, and they’re all lit together for at most a second before the sign goes black and the cycle starts again. Since you need to take a longish exposure, and some sort of mirror flip-up delay is a good idea in order to get a sharp image, you have to basically guess when to hit the cable release such that everything works at the right time.
So I set up my E-520 on a tripod, and wound up taking more than a dozen shots (with bracketed exposures) until I got two that I liked. This is the better of the two, essentially straight out of the camera.
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