Dan Casarella Recipe 1

Device: Apple iPhone 5S iOS7
App: Noir

For my POW I was very compelled to capture the lights on the top of a building next to mine. I wanted to focus on the shape of the lights as well the direction they were going towards so I shot them from a high angle looking down upon them. Given my limited space, I couldn’t get as close to them as I wanted to so this was the best I could do.

For editing I used an app I had found called Noir. My biggest priority was to focus on the lights and take out anything in the background that wasn’t there. The app lets you put the focus of light where ever you’d like, so I put it in the sky because it would darked out everything else except the lights. I blacked out everything in the background then tried to back the lights contrast. Looking at the photo there are still some lights in the background, however I think those add to the atmosphere a bit.