The only picture from The Strip that caught my interest at all was of
the volcano in front of the Mirage. I camped out at this hotel for 35 to 40 minutes, initially waiting for the "eruption" to start,
and then to snap pictures during the fairly lengthy eruption.
I think I
took a full roll attempting to capture a waterfall picture with the
interesting red lighting of the volcano. It
actually proved to be
a pretty tough shot.
Two reasons:
- The bursts of fire:
These
provided so much light that I could have taken a picture without the
tripod. Anyway, with so much light, the smoothed waterfall effect
disappeared. - The Mirage hotel itself:
I don’t know why I
didn’t think of this before I started taking pictures, but I had a
metering problem. I wanted to take a picture of a very dark object with
dull red light. The problem was that right behind it was an object with
better lighting, and a much brighter color of light (yellow). That
second object was the hotel. So when I had pictures without flames, the
hotel was overexposed, pulling attention away from the deep red light
of the eruption. If I had just moved one or two hours clockwise, the
Mirage would have been out of the frame, and my problem would have been
solved.