Lower East Side

What was the EI used and what was the shutter speed I ask because I'd have expected the shutter speed to be slow enough to capture as much detail as this to be slow enough for the two pedestrians' feet to have moved unless they were standing still long enough to exchange a few words so perhaps they were?

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pentaxuser

pentaxuser said:

What was the EI used and what was the shutter speed I ask because I'd have expected the shutter speed to be slow enough to capture as much detail as this to be slow enough for the two pedestrians' feet to have moved unless they were standing still long enough to exchange a few words so perhaps they were?

Thanks

pentaxuser

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Hello and that is a great question for which I have no answer, as I do remember bracing against a lightpole and I think the shutter might have been wide open and the exposure might have been 1/15, 1/30 or so. I just matched the needle. The snow was blowing bruskly and pedestrians were walking slowly. I remember exposing for the store window. ASA 400.

Thanks Now I think about it, the light from the shop and the proximity of the two people plus the possibility of them being relatively still for at least a second or so might well have made those exposures possible

It's a good example of a winter's night when the world seems to "stand still and be isolated