Vegas baby, VEGAS!!

Long time no post, sometimes daily life gets in the way of online updates. I thought a good way to keep posting updates when busy would be to post up and talk about a particular photograph now and again.

So this is the first one I'll talk about. When I look at it the first thing it reminds me of is that you don't always have the best vantage point. I'm not looking down a particularly interesting point on the strip. I guess you can see the New York New York Casino to the left, and then far off on the right the top of the Paris Hotel and Casino. What is interesting though, are the amount of cars going into town compared to the number of cars leaving town. I don't suppose I noticed that at the time I took the photo, but who knows why one takes certain photos.

This photo also represents one of the ways I like to guide the eye and create interest, and that is with focus and color/saturation. I did a lot of work to the sky on this one, to really saturate it up, it kind of draws the eye away from the line of cars coming into town. I think that creates a nice sense of movement for the eye, and the end result is an interesting photo of something that isn't actually that interesting, in my opinion.