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                 Directors commentary on “Enlightened Palms”

I'm not really thrilled with how Enlightened Palms [1] turned out; I think
Deserted Shopping Center in West Boca at 2:30 am [2] turned out much better.
Enlightened Palms is too washed out and grainy whereas Shopping Center is
crisper.

I set the digital camera for night shots, indoor (artificial) lighting, no
flash and an effective film rating of ASA (American Standards Association)
400, which as films go, means it's a fast film. It's the speed of film I used
in college (Florida Atlantic University) [3] and I've had good results in
using it at night, so I decided to use that setting here. Only the digital
camera gives rather poor results with ASA 400 at night; very grainy and black
areas tend to be a very blotchy bluish-black (which is more noticable on the
original 1984×1488 images).

For Shopping Center (which was taken when I headed back to the car) I decided
to see what the results would look like if, keeping the other settings the
same (night shot, indoor lighting, no flash) and set the ASA to 100. The
results I think look much better, so I'm thinking of doing another attempt at
Enlightened Palms in the near future [4].

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2002/12/08/enlightened.palms.jpg
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2002/12/08/lot.100.jpg
[3] http://www.fau.edu/
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/12/11.1

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