{"id":3975,"date":"2022-09-27T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2025-03-27T00:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T00:05:03","slug":"a-darker-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimhphoto.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/27\/a-darker-minneapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Darker Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Minneapolis is a troubled city these days; some dark clouds hang over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The problems facing Minneapolis today are shared by other big cities, and they’re well known. Downtown has lost vitality, the streets are often grim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it’s not over. Big cities have ups and down as the years roll by. For every boom, there’s a bust, then the cycle repeats. Recovery can take a long time but better days will return.. The future is never what we think it will be, either good or bad; things always head off in new and unexpected directions. Count on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I stood out in the chill on the 10th Avenue bridge, I was looking for a bright, optimistic view of the city at “blue hour” with traffic streaming by in the foreground on Interstate 35. But clouds rolled in, creating a dark and dramatic scene at sundown. I went with it and tried to create something that felt like today’s reality. It had to be monochrome – mostly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To capture nighttime traffic when a highway isn’t crowded, you can do a long exposure, but that may produce just a band of pale ghostly white streaks across the whole photo, no real sense of action. At this distance a shutter speed of about 1\/6 captured bright trails with sharp endpoints – but only a couple at a time. So I layered portions of several shots for an image that captured that vaguely exciting and slightly scary feeling of being next to a highway at night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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