Saturday, August 15, 2009

Night Grabs


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Originally uploaded by hansraj1

Took a nice loong expose yesterday night; what you see in this picture is the faculty block at IIM Lucknow. Peole have been asking me several questions about the red tinge in the sky. Without any intent of getting nasty, here goes the explanation: This is night time, and the radiations that rayleigh's scattering is entertaining as of now are infrared in nature and are emitted by earth's surface. With a long enough exposure, you can grab all of it on film, and you get the beautiful red.

Okay, it might all actually be wrong too, but the color's there naturally. No off-cam edits to bring out the red!

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