The Humans Are Dead

A friend and I went out to visit another friend Sunday night. I knew that the trip to his house would take me past this old Saw Mill that sits on the Sangamon River just outside of New Salem. So I brought the camera with me to try to get a night shot of the mill. The location was much darker that I was counting on. Even 30 second exposures weren’t pulling in enough light. So we had to improvise a little car headlight spot lighting from the parking lot. Not the ideal lighting source but I think I managed an interesting photo. Too bad only one of the shots was usable.

I dug up some of the old film photos I took back when I was in college and scanned them in. They turned out pretty grainy. The photos were already slightly grainy because we were shooting everything with 400 iso film (if I remember correctly) and printing to a matte finish paper (can’t remember what exactly it was). But the scans turned out with even more grain than in the prints. I think my scanner is about to crap out on me. So these are slightly photoshopped for balance and contrast to try to get them closer to how they look in the prints.

View the rest of the set over at Flickr