Stairs at Night by farmreporter

Stairs at Night

Sandra @sandradavies challenged me to do a deep, dark night-time shot of our driveshed. These stairs were actually shot after the sun went down in the dark, I needed to brighten the shot to show some detail.
You see, it is really dark back there with no light to cast shadows. So, the light you see here is the remaining light in the sky from when the sun went down.
Thank you, Sandra @sandradavies for the great challenge. It is really tough to do but I sure like the moodiness of the result!
June 8th, 2020  
Wendy this is fantastic. Love this result.
June 8th, 2020  
love the light and tones
June 8th, 2020  
Great idea.
June 8th, 2020  
Love this photo and the story it tells. Great composition.
June 8th, 2020  
This is really cool! Fav
June 8th, 2020  
oh nice! I would adjust levels on the raw image just a little, what a great shot
June 8th, 2020  
Deliciously creepy!
June 8th, 2020  
@koalagardens
Thank you for your input. I do appreciate other's opinion.
Would you make it darker or slightly lighter? How could I make the top of the stairs lighter without making the bottom any lighter? I have been doing the Photoshop PH Learn tutorials with Aaron Nace but have not dove into actually using Photoshop. Time to put knowledge into practice I guess!
June 8th, 2020  
this is fabulous Wendy, I love the moodiness of it.
June 8th, 2020  
Nice on the black background. Looks like a full moon shining in. If you have options to increase or decrease shadows and highlights (I can do this in Lightroom) you could see how they might effect the result.
June 8th, 2020  
Rather like this!
June 8th, 2020  
Love this
July 1st, 2020  
After seeing the original, I would go lightly on any tweaking of this. Had I not see this one, it might not have made a difference. The mood and lighting are fabulous. Something that you couldn't do in the daytime.
July 2nd, 2020  
@byrdlip
Well, thank you very much for your comment!
I was wondering how I could tweak this to make it better, and decided that it was going to have to stay the same.
So good to get confirmation on my decision!
July 2nd, 2020  
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