Where i live update

Since I posted about the where i live project it's been nothing short of polar bear weather here. I had shot this picture on the way out to meet some friends for a pre-Christmas meal. I needed to walk this way and as I had a camera thought I'd snap the scene to remind me to come back to it. My thinking is some hard light exists under those street lamps and maybe that can be the tone for the picture. Alternative bring in an extra flash and use this as a background to a shot with a model in light with hard lighting. All seems quite sensible really. However back to the polar bear weather, my car showed -11 celsius on Tuesday night and the fields and trees round this area still have a pretty kind of permafrost on them. I think it comes from the consistent sub-zero temperatures and the combination with quite regular freezing fog in the evenings. I was driving this afternnon and I couldn't help but think that maybe the alleyway shot is not the one for January, but instead a super cool - landscape in the deep freeze - shot would be better. I'm still thinking to put the model in and maybe try to cool the background by using a half or even full CTO gel on a flash to light the model and then set the camera to tungsten to make the landscape more blue.

Lots of thoughts and still no picture though. Maybe tomorrow it will turn warm and the landscape deep freeze picture will be lost, I hope not.

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