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Yom Kippur Pati

A girl walks through an empty tunnel on a busy freeway during a holiday in which no cars are allowed on the roads.

A girl walks through an empty tunnel on a busy freeway during a holiday in which no cars are allowed on the roads.
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Canon EOS REBEL T1i

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Aperture f/6.3 ISO 1600 Shutter 1/25

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Nov, 2014

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Behind The Lens

Location

Tel Aviv, Israel

Time

Around 11 pm

Lighting

The lighting was a bit of a problem because it was very orange and difficult to capture well.

Equipment

Just a camera and a standard 55mm lens

Inspiration

Every year in Israel is a holiday called Yom Kippur where it is against the Jewish faith to drive or work for 24 hours. Therefore, the entire country turns into a phenomenal apocalyptic-like state. The roads are empty, including the tunnels and freeways. Each year that I lived there I hosted a "Yom Kippur Photoshoot". I would gather a group of volunteer models and we'd walk around the city from 10 pm until 6 am taking photos.

Editing

I tried to remove a bit of the orange from the light, added a bit of contrast.

In my camera bag

camera, 4 lens, hot-shoe flash, tripod

Feedback

I highly recommend that any photographer take advantage of the Yom Kippur holiday in Israel. Words cannot describe the sensation of walking on an empty freeway at 6 am, just as the sun is coming up. The lighting is perfect and you feel like you are the only one left in the world. No place else on earth is this possible, except in Israel on this one day.

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Yom Kippur Pati

A girl walks through an empty tunnel on a busy freeway during a holiday in which no cars are allowed on the roads.

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