DowntownLA - Night Shots of the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Armed with a 1970's Italian made Bogen tripod that my dad gave me really paid off tonight. That old Bogen weighs a ton comparison to the light weight flimsy tripods of 2018. I'll take beefy and heavy any day of the week (protection for my camera and final images).

Okay so I went on a rant about tripods; but you gotta have one to these kinds of shots. So I'll dive into the inspiration.

Shot above is of the Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Frank Gehry in 2003

BTW!!! If you want to get some tips on night photography I wrote a tutorial based on this shoot (link):
https://steemit.com/photography/@lightenup/urban-night-photography-tutorial

I rang up my buddy Josh this morning about doing some shooting. Normally when we shoot together we get a couple of models and shoot some artsy glam stuff. That's fun but we decided to do something urban. We both happen to live in LA, "Let's go shoot some fucking long exposure shit downtown!"

...and that's what we did. Loaded up some tripods, bags of lenses, parked and walked downtown

Above shot: close up of 110 Fwy*

Another shot of Walt Disney Concert Hall

I was waiting for a city bus to go by because the interior bus light would produce some crazy bright blue light from the interior. But all the downtown buses had wraps on the outside and no light was really emitting.

Long lens, I think I used an 85mm, for this shot of the 110 Fwy

This shot was taken about 10minutes after the sun went down. Just getting warmed up with setting up the tripod, adjusting camera settings. Getting acquainted with the gear in the dark.