Bangkok Color: Lumpini Park In Pastel

I’m experimenting with long exposures and am particularly happy with the way the color palette is rendered in this image. The faint pastel colors remind me a bit of the hand-painted black and white images of yesteryear. I have a photograph of my mother when she was a young girl, probably 4 or 5 years old, that is hand painted. It’s gorgeous. The rendering of paint on a silver halide print doesn’t look like a darkroom or digital print; it has a certain depth that comes from having layers of material worked one into another. I think I could successfully print this image. I don’t think it would have the character of that photograph of my mother. Please click to enlarge.

For the geeks, here are the details:

• Camera: Canon 5D MkII, Magic Lantern Firmware Hack
• Lens: The Stellar Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II Tilt-Shift Lens*
• Singh-Ray Vari-ND Variable Neutral Density Filter*
• Singh-Ray Mor-Slo ND Filter
• Canon TC80N3 Timer Remote Control*
• 4 Minute Exposure, f/16, ISO200, Roughly 10 Stops ND
• Processed in Adobe Lightroom 4,* Mainly For Red Channel Noise Reduction and Sharpening

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