SUBJECT: Pie Casso

LOCATION: The Mountain Road in Stowe, Vermont

CAMERA: Canon Mark 1D IIN

LENS: Canon 24-105mm F4 IS L series

December, 2007

I've always had a thing about photographing signs.  I think it stems from the good old days of when I used to put together slide shows -- and no, not the PowerPoint variety, but actual slide shows with real slides and a projector.  In those days (the film days), I always made it a habit to photograph a street or road sign or an important and recognizable landmark or tee-shirt or something so that I could give a reference point for the viewer where a particular series was taken.  I often found myself takin

g pix of old diner signs (guess I was always  fascinated with old diner cars) - I think because they are fast fading slice of Americana.  No, this pix isn't of a cool diner sign, but rather of another restaurant. 

Anyway, I was driving home from Stowe in a snow storm this past December after a great day snowboarding when I noticed how cool the sign at Piecasso's looked in the snow.  I quickly pulled over grabbed my camera to take a couple of shoots.  I did not have any auxiliary lighting or flash with me, so I had set the ISO to 1600 because I needed to have somewhat of a fast shutter speed to avoid tons of white snowflake streaks across the image.  I then set the white balance to AUTO because there were multip

le light sources (tungsten, halogen and mercury vapor)  and figured I could correct the white balance later (actually the camera handled the multiple light sources very well and no post production was needed to correct color and light temperature.

J. Michael Worthington, Jr.

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