Another Bit on the Bus

St. Paul Cathedral, revisited

Tonight I ventured with some friends at night in St. Paul . The evening started as a meetup to shoot the St. Paul cathedral at night, but we started way to early and from too much of a distance. We milled about the Mounds Park, then we took a break for refreshments and we started shooting when the sun finally set.

After the cathedral, with the last energy reserves we went downtown St. Paul, to shoot the Ordway and Rice Park. The statue in the middle of the water fountain provided some challenges - the environment was lit acceptably, but the statue was in complete darkness. I had the flashes with me, but I could not position them close enough - so I resorted to a trick: the camera was positioned on the tripod, with the aperture at 9.0 and 10 seconds exposure time. I started the exposure with the cable release, then went in a quarter circle around the fountain, shooting the flash by pressing the test button - 5 full flashes, equally spaced. The result is pretty neat.