Ryon (Skorz) > The grey concrete is cast in the green of mercury vapor while the metal garage door is given an orange cast by sodium vapor.
Ryon (Skorz) > Underneath the Lamar Blvd. bridge, looking south.

It is not possible to white-balance the sodium lamps, because they emit only a single, orange wavelength of light.

Another frame-in-a-frame experiment.
Ryon (Skorz) > Underneath the 1st Street bridge, looking North. The monochromatic glow of sodium vapor lamps illuminates everything in orange-yellow. I composed this photograph to attempt a frame-within-a-frame looks.
Ryon (Skorz) > A part of the 1950s-era Seaholm Power Plant glows an ominous sickly green courtesy of its mercury vapor lamps.
Ryon (Skorz) > The lights of downtown Austin reflect brilliantly off the water. One thing I had not noticed until now is the symmetry in the heights of the buildings from this vista of the skyline.

The tricky part about these sorts of shots is getting the light balance correct. You don't want to have a featureless black void for a sky, but at the same time, you don't want to blow out the lights of the city too much (Which tends to happen to the frost tower in the center).
The grey concrete is cast in the green of mercury vapor while the metal garage door is given an orange cast by sodium vapor.
Ryon (Skorz) > The grey concrete is cast in the green of mercury vapor while the metal garage door is given an orange cast by sodium vapor.
The grey concrete is cast in the green of mercury vapor while the metal garage door is given an orange cast by sodium vapor.
See photo in original gallery.

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