Twilight on Hitt Street

I don't take too many twilight photos downtown when I am trying to photograph downtown Columbia at night.  The light at this time of evening just doesn't look convincingly nocturnal.  Images appear weak, indeterminate, in between.  Josef Sudek was pretty good at using this kind of flat, hazy, low contrast light in some of his photos of Prague.  It is hard to feel sure about a grey-on-grey image, but here is one of Hitt Street back in March, 2016.  Ninth Street Video was still in business, or at least the sign was still attached to the front of the building.  I really miss that place.  So, an early spring evening on Hitt Street, downtown Columbia.

Broadway Diner on an atomspheric summer night

Ninth Street Q Line during True False Film Festival

This is the first time the Nightview blog has posted a color image.  The image in question was a panoramic taken during the True False Film Festival, as the queue line formed outside of the Blue Note and along Ninth Street.  The panoramic method I am using, which is probably the most unstudied and least rigorous method I could employ, involves multiple photographs from several different positions along the street.  The result is a kind of time-delayed fragmentation.  The image is not completely true, but interesting.