Neon can look soooo good in pictures. The key is to choose an exposure that will not burn out the neon's colour. Negative film has a good range but with digital or slide film you might end up with neon that is white in the middle if you expose too aggressively.
Expose too weakly, however, and your neon will end up hanging in black space with no context.
If you can shoot negative film try overexposing about one stop over what the meter tells you. Negative film has a lot of range and you should retain the colour.
If shooting digital you might want to make two exposures on a tripod and combine them afterwards. Make one darker exposure to get the neon with colour and one fairly bright one to get the background. Combine in Photoshop.
I don't own Photoshop.
I really like this one
ReplyDelete