Since I started spending the winter months living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and publishing photographs taken here, quite a few people have written asking what San Miguel is really like.
Well – there is no one “really like“, since SMA is such a unique place. But, in the spirit of the season, on Christmas Eve 2011 I shot a small video of the festivities in the main square and on one of the side streets near where we live in Centro.
(Yes, I know it’s only 2011, while the title says 2012. Blame it onthe morning after the night before, and a slow Internet connection that makes re-uploading 500+ MB not worth the effort.)
This 3.5 minute video was shot primarily with the Sony NEX-5 and 16mm f/2.8 at ISO 3200. The street segment with the pinata was shot with the Sony NEX-7 using the Zeiss 24mm f/1.8.
Editing and grading was done using Final Cut Pro X along with Irudis Tonalizer.
This video is not intended as a demonstration of anything whatsoever. It’s just something that I quickly whipped together to say Feliz Navidad from San Miguel to all of our readers.
December, 2011
Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.
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