About the Image(s)

I went on a street photography workshop with my state photography group. We happened to do it on the same day as the CicLAvia event on Melrose Ave. It was a celebration of all things people-powered, where they closed Melrose to car traffic. It was a party! So much fun. There were costumes, all kinds of vehicles, etc. I stood behind a street barrier to keep me out of traffic and played with blurring the traffic coming at me and going away.

I shot this with a Nikon Z9 and a new Nikkor 28-400mm f/4-f/8 lens I just picked up. I shot it at ISO 64, f/22 at 1/5 of a second. It was slightly overexposed, but I wanted to get as slow a shutter speed as I could get away with. I dropped the exposure a half stop in camera raw and played with dehaze, texture, contrast and the highlights/shadows sliders to restore detail. I cropped it in the 16:9 format to accentuate the lines in the street and the riders coming at me/going away. I'm glad the traffic officer stayed as still as he did. It really made the frame.