At the beginning of the month I spent a unusually warm Sunday evening walking around downtown taking some night time photos. I wasn't trying to take anything award winning. I was just practicing taking different shots and playing with the settings to see how they would come out.
I did manage to get some shots that I really liked but a good many of them just didn't turn out as planned. It looks like I will need to do more practicing.
Just for fun I posted four of the photos from that evening on Facebook and urged my friends and family to vote for the one they liked best. As you can imagine everyone liked different photos for different reasons.
The one that got the most votes was the photo above. It was a narrow victory, each total was separated by just one vote.
I can see why this one was the favorite. It really shows most of the buildings here in downtown Lecompte. I think that I did a really good job on this one adjusting the shutter speed and ISO to where there was the correct amount of light so you can see all the way down the street.
This is our second place finisher. This was Terri's favorite photo. She thought that the subject matter and composition were perfect.
Third place winner was taken at the opposite of downtown. Once again I think that I got the settings just right so that everything was perfectly illuminated. I thought that this one was the best. I'm just the photographer, what do I know. (lol)
This one came in fourth, but I really liked it. It's not all that different from the last photo, just taken a little further back. I liked the detail on the building to the left, which locals informed me was the old mortuary.
I included a few more photos that I didn't post to Facebook. I didn't think that they were the cream of the crop but upon a second viewing I thought that everyone would find them interesting.
Lecompte is a very interesting place to walk around because of its numerous historical structures and landmarks and it provides a photographer like myself plenty of amazing things to focus my camera on.
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