I was quite pleased with this shot, taken by the Marathon Petroleum plant in Dearborn, Michigan last night.
(You can click it for a larger version, which looks much better)
This was handheld – I wish I’d had a tripod, but at this point the security guards pulled up and asked us to move on…
Part of what makes it ‘pretty’ is the use of two different types of lighting – given the industrial location, I imagine the golden light is sodium and the silver is halogen – and the camera’s auto white-balance did a good job of reproducing what I saw.
But when I got home and loaded it into Lightroom, I thought it would be fun to try calibrating the white balance based on a chimney lit by the sodium light. (I could have achieved a similar effect by selecting tungsten white balance in the camera.) The result was also pretty. Can’t quite decide which I prefer…
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