Batman Ave

A favourite photo of mine taken overlooking Batman Avenue in Melbourne. Before I get into the image itself I'll mention that this is nothing to do with a fictional vigilante billionaire that likes dressing up as a bat. But as one of the founders of Melbourne, John Batman. A man of questionable dealings with the Aboriginal land custodians, but also a man that our city could have been named after (Batmania).
Now that the history lesson is out of the way, this is one of my favourite photos because it is exactly what I set out to get, and it took planning and careful post processing to achieve. Something that is not always possible for a landscape photographer when you have to deal with whatever conditions you have at the time. I won't include the camera settings because this image is a blend of about 15 exposures over a period of 2 hours. Over that time I didn't move the camera's position. I took images before sunset, at sunset, after sunset and at night to capture the different elements needed. Such as the light on the trees before sunset, the colour in the clouds at sunset, and the lights in the buildings and multiple car trail exposures at night.

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