SEPTEMBER 2001 – Shortly before midnight, a car rushes by on the Plaza de la Independencia with the Puerta de Alcala in Madrid, Spain. Photo © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
In the summer of 2001, I spent several weeks in Madrid, Spain. For one of those trips I brought my brand new digital camera: a Kodak DC 4800 Zoom Digital, featuring an amazing image sensor with a whopping 3.1 megapixels. While this was just about 30% of the number of pixels you could get from a 35 mm slide film, it was still amazing to capture decent, well exposed photos and see them right a second later on the built-in screen. Yep, folks. This was super cool, top notch photo technology. Back in 2001.
I took this photo while walking towards the city center to get some more long exposures of the really busy Calle Alcala at night. This shot was just a test shot to see how well the camera would cope with long exposures. And it turned out that it was coping very well with this difficult situation!
I still like this shot because the illuminated Puerta de Alcala is like a lit door in the darkness, an entry point for a historic city that just waits to be explored by the traveller. And the image reminds me of the valuable time I spent in Spain in that year.
The high resolution image
| Capture Date & Time | 30-SEP-2001, 23:05 |
| Location | Puerte de Alcala, Madrid, Spain |
| Camera | Kodak DC 4800 Zoom Digital |
| Lens | built-in |
| ISO | 100 |
| Exposure | 1/8 sec at f/2.8 |
| Digital Image Source Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Format | JPEG, 24 bits/pixel, sRGB |
| Edited Image Dimensions | 2160 x 896 Pixels |
| Copyright | © by Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com |
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