Night Experiments — First Troy Paiva Inspired Pictures

Tacoma Nights – Buckeye, AZ – Fujifilm X-T5 & 18mm f/1.4 – Vivid Velvia (modified) I have an upcoming project, and as part of that I want to create some Troy Paiva inspired night photos. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Troy creates nighttime photos of abandoned buildings, cars, airplanes, etc., illuminated by colored lights and the full moon (check out his Instagram). For this project, I want to do something similar for some of the pictures. I don’t have very much experience with this type of photography, so I need some practice before attempting the important images. Some critical parts for this project arrived yesterday, namely lights and a Fujinon 18mm f/1.4 lens. I’m not sure yet if the 18mm f/1.4 is the lens that I want to use, but I think it might be. We’ll see. Fujifilm let me borrow it, so I can try it out before deciding. More important than the lens are the lights, which are cheap Neewer mini portable LED lights I found on Amazon for $27 each. I purchased two. All…