True color -- no filter or enhancement
San Jose, California
Nikon F80 // Provia 100F // Nikkor 50mm 1.8D
On Wednesday, Sept 9, 2020, the skies above northern California went orange from wildfire ash high in the atmosphere. The ash was suspended high above by a marine layer of air beneath it, and didn't begin reaching the ground until the next day, when the eerie orange sky was replaced by one of dull white. I took these photos on a 2.5 hour bike ride through Santa Clara and San Jose around in the early afternoon using a sunlight-balanced, natural-color slide film, with the camera automatically metering at the box speed of 100. Despite it being mid-day, it was very dark -- to achieve shutter speeds faster than 1/100, the aperture was never slower than f/4, and usually set to f/2.
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