01/15/2019
Killian Court Day to Night Transition
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This was the coolest and hardest photograph I have had the chance to create! It starts out as day from the left and slowly transitions into nighttime at the far right.
In order to accomplish this, I had to take multiple photos throughout the day at the same exact location with the same tripod settings so that the images perfectly align—all of this in the cold winter weather. Initially the images didn't align, but thanks to photoshop, I managed to use the auto-align feature to fix that. Although I took multiple images, it only made sense to transition through a few of them. So, I chose the 4 best images. Also, the images were taken farther away from the dome (including nearby trees), it didn't make much sense to transition through the trees. So I zoomed in to get this close. The next step was to blend the photos using photoshop's gradient masks, but it wasn't as simple as that. Some parts of the images were better than others even in areas where they weren't visible, so I decided to also select certain areas of the images to show and others to hide.
Overall, I had a ton of fun doing this, and that's why I am releasing the taken images under the creative commons license! You can find a link to the photos here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MgNScRjUo-7M6lRqg2WuPgxfnh_nyN6M?usp=sharing. Feel free to play around with the images or use them. The only thing I ask is to cite me :) ! Anyway, I hope you enjoy the photos and let me know your thoughts!