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Dublin Bridge + Four Courts
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With the quality of the photographs posted in this forums latelly I’m even afraid of submiting something for C&C but well, the point is learning so if you point out what I’m doing wrong hopefully i will improve faster! That being said, C&C is encouraged! Hope you like it!
Camera RAW
Exposure: 10s
F: f/8
ISO: ISO 200
PS: Very little photoshop used, just a bit of sharpening, saturation and crop!
Nice Capture Rod… Maybe try getting out a little earlier so there is a bit of colour in the sky… it always helps to balance the image… Also the lights are blown a bit… again with a bit of light in the sky it might reduce your exposure time and so the highlights might be saved…! Otherwise its a nice image with lots of atmosphere…!
Richie
Difficult shot to take – you’ve got extreme highlights against a virtually pitch black background. I personally would try and take this type of shot within the first hour after sunset (by sunset I mean that the sun has dipped below the horizon). During that time there will still be some light in the sky so you’re not battling against such an inky blackness and you can set you exposure much shorter and thereby prevent burnout of the street lighting. The light changes quickly during that time, so you’re probably not going to get more than one or two building shots on a shoot like that. Hope this helps a little!
BTW – why use ISO 200? I would always try and use the lowest ISO possible. You’re going to be using a tripod anyway, so you may as well push for the best quality image. Generally, the lower you’re ISO, the lower the level of noise in the image, although this is a trade off, because excessively long exposure times do bring their own noise problems with them.
Thanks alot for the feedback guys…
At the start the lights being a bit blown wasn’t bothering me, i have actually the same shot without the lights being that blown, though you couldn’t make the cathedral tower in the back, but since you brought that up I can’t seem to take my eyes off the lights!! damn you! :D
Regarding the ISO 200, i had been shooting with the camera set at ISO 100 actually… though somehow i must have changed it and totally forgot about that (thank god it wasnt ISO 1600), since i don’t normally change the iso settings that often i assumed they would be set to 100 and not 200, was only when i was processing the raw image that i noticed the exif info that iso was set to 200, next time… stop assuming and check every setting before shooting anything!
This wasn’t planned at all it happened as i was coming out from a meeting i noticed that the sky was really nice and since the camera bag was in the boot of the car i said to myself, why don’t you go down to the river and try and shoot something this is the first result of that something almost as it came out of the camera.
Thanks again for the feedback and next time i will try to sneak out of the meeting a bit early… ehehe!
Regards,
Rod
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