Posted by Stephen Kiernan, follow me on Twitter.

I had planned to post some night time photography shots I took earlier today but they turned out terrible (It was my first shot at shooting in the dark), so instead I’m posting an image of an everyday object, with a difference. By fiddling with the manual settings on my camera (exposure compensation, ISO sensitivity etc) you can create some very vivid imagery. During postprocessing in Photoshop I underexposed it by 4EV and it turned out as you see below. I think it looks pretty awesome. Can you guess what it is?

  • Aperture: f/3.8
  • Shutter Speed: 1/15s
  • ISO: 3200
  • Lens: 18-200@22mm
  • Exposure Compensation +5EV

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