This shot was taken from the Ferris Wheel last Easter at Enchanted Kingdom. Taken at about 7PM. When I first rode this Ferris Wheel, I was not scared at all. I was even the one to make the thing… uhm… carriage(?) turn around. But the last two times I got on it, I was scared shitless.
I don’t know why, I just sort of did. I can’t explain why I wasn’t afraid the first time, but the last two times were making me curse why the wind had to even move.
Anyway, I took this shot and it was ugly as hell. I didn’t even have a “vision” for this shot and had very little to no plans on publishing it. So why I risked my life (well, it felt that I did) to take this shot, I just don’t know why.
In the end, the shot looked like Hell’s hound chewed it up and spat it out. Then came photo editing to help. Yey.
I chose this shot among the 10 or so death defying shots that I took since it was the one with the least amount of distraction, the straightest and I like the way the metal “beams” made patterns and nice lines. So what I did here was to increase the depth of the black of the night sky to remove all the unnecessary light and stuff. I also realigned the image as straight as I could. Then I made it look as low key but still nice as possible. And, viola.