Romancing The Canon 5D Mark II With DTLA Street Lights

The street lights in DTLA offers something more than lighting up the streets. In my eyes, it romanticizes the not only the surrounded architecture, but the living beings that walk them every night. The lights have this old diffused look to it, which helps softens the skin tone on human skin tone. 

DTLA has a new breed of people, it hasn't seen this type of night life in over 20 years. Now that new urbanization is taking into effect, more color, contrast, and stories are unfolding.

Using the Canon 5D Mark II it really captures a unique look to visual aspects of the film.Shooting at shallow depth of field, I decided to always isolate the subject from the background, this way the focus is always on the face, especially, the eyes.

Below are some image capture from the raw footage, as you can see, many of the images has beautiful soft lighting. In conjunction with shadows, it really adds to the look and feel of the moment.

 

See the first web series on Street Style DTLA June 2011