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heres a few more of nyc at night we took.. i shoot the scenes as bright as i can capturing as much detail as i can, no big deal if the lights are blown out.
mathjak107...hey thanks for posting the settings, iso, lens etc you are shooting pictures with...it sure helps me who is struggling to learn this stuff!
thats why we are all here, to help each other. heres some more low light , these are done on a tripod ,iso 200, i exposed darker on these keeping the shadows and going for less detail.
THE IMPORTANT THING IS YOUR IN CONTROL.
instead of just snapping a picture you need to decide in advance what kind of look you want and set your camera accordingly. the photos above and these are very different looks and were configured to show different amounts of detail. that was done by my my choice, not randomely shooting.. i exposed just enough to get the light reflections in the boats but not much ,more then that. i then worked them in post processing working all the areas seperatly bringing up in brightness and contrast small areas giving attention to the ripples in the water and leaving the boats in the shadows. kind of the opposite what one would normally do...
i then worked them in post processing working all the areas seperatly bringing up in brightness and contrast small areas giving attention to the ripples in the water and leaving the boats in the shadows. kind of the opposite what one would normally do...
I really like this effect...what are program are you using for post processing work and what are the tweaks you do???
Im only starting to use elements 8.0 so most of my main editing is nikon capture nx2 which is just a basic raw editor...
ill use levels and curves and the color points to either add contrast, brightness and saturation locally in just spots and not the entire picture.
i enjoy using the nik color effex filter set and there are i think 53 different filters.
i also use photomatix for that hdr look or more ofton now for just merging multiple exposures into a super exposure without the dark dirty clouds and wierd looking light inversions.
i strive to shoot as far to the right of the historam as i can . that gives me as low noise as i can get. its much cleaner dimming things later then brightning them. trying to brighten afterwards is like increasing iso , it creates noise..
most of the time eye balling the lcd my photos look to bright and slightly washed out but as you see i can really pop them later on if they are clean.
Last edited by mathjak107; 03-04-2010 at 02:14 PM..
I have PhotoShop Lightroom so I will look for diff. filters...haven't tried the photomatix as I just got a good tripod so that will be down the road at some point. again thanks for the info....every little bit helps for us noobies!
a 100 year old train station in scranton pa was turned into a radisson hotel.. we stayed there and it was just beautiful. nikon d80 with 18-200mm, tripod
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