Fairytale
by Ralf Rohner
Title
Fairytale
Artist
Ralf Rohner
Medium
Photograph
Description
There are very few castles that fit the cliche of a fairytale castle better than Château de Chambord in the Loire Valley. It was built in the 16th century by king François l and Leanardo da Vinci was presumably one of its architects.
Castles are very difficult targets for nightscapes, as most of them are brightly illuminated at night. Chambord is no exception, but the illumination is more sophisticated than in other places. The lights are changing in color and brightness to simulate a circadian rythm.
I captured this image this week during a 5 day astrophotography trip to France with my buddy benjaminbarakat. We started to shoot during the blue hour and observed the illumination to understand its rythm. As expected, it was too bright to capture the stars and the castle in a single image, but every 7 minutes there was a sequence when the lights turned red and dimmed down within a few seconds, before they were momentarily switched off and brightened again with a blue tint.
This gave us roughly a 15s window to shoot single exposures and by varying the start and length of our exposures we were able to change the hue of the castle in the image. The pink light turned out to be my favorite. It is an effect of the long exposure combining the very last seconds of the red with the first few seconds of the blue illumination.
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June 28th, 2020
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Allan Van Gasbeck
Congratulations! Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in the “Long Exposure and Night Photography ” group on Fine Art America - You are invited to post your featured image to the featured image discussion thread as a permanent place to continue to get exposure even after the image is no longer on the Home Page.
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