Georgetown At Night #5

Giddings Hall, on the Georgetown College campus, is home to administrative, development and public relations offices.

This is one of three antebellum buildings on the campus.   This was an interesting picture to take at night. There is an extremely bright light hanging just beyond the pillars and before the entrance door.  You can see the bright light being reflected off of the brick turning the brick white in some areas.  I needed to hide the light in order for it to not overpower the photo and hide the details of the building.  So I took this shot at a 45 degree ish angle and used one of the columns to obscure the light.  This permitted me to take a longer exposure, 14 seconds, in order to properly expose the rest of the image. 

A technique of taking photos when there is a harsh light source is to actually take 2 photos, one underexposed and the other overexposed.  Then in photoshop, or your favorite image editor, you blend the two photos together.  I plan to try this on a future photo and see how well it works.