So long story short, I drove to a job interview yesterday, got there 45 minutes early. Drove around for the hell of it to kill time, there's a massive construction site going on for the South Road Superway, looks like it'll be there for the next 3 years at least. Whilst me and the missus were driving past it, she came up with a very cool art-project idea to do together (more details on that later, if it ever happens). So we drove back last night, and got some very very nice industrial-artwork in the setting sun, the shots look really good, but they're not exactly 'long exposure' (a lot were with the 85/1.8 @ f/1.8 1/8000s). After the sun went down we were still walking around looking for shots, so I set the lensbaby up on the tripod, with an f/22 disc and plastic-optic in.

I tried a few variations of this one, I took 3-bracketed exposures at 1/3s, 13s, 30s and tried combining them into an HDR (LuminanceHDR that I use doesn't like dealing with clipped highlights though), tried a few variations of DPP settings, lower contrast, -0.5EV, -2 Highlights, none looked any good. So in the end I just took the 30s exposure .cr2 file, loaded that into the program by itself and tonemapped it, took it to GIMP and fixed some curves, and cloned out a lot of dead-pixels, and came up with this:


Still not too happy with it, but it's my entry for now. I might go back later for more photos and get there earlier for the sweetlight. Or I can just hang around there after work, because I got the freaking job. woo! And I can bring my new tripod and arca-swiss plates and all, because I just celebrated and bought $1k of gear from B+H. woo! (but there goes my first week's paycheque)