[C + C] Nice at Night

Diarmuid

Only starting out at this photography lark. Don't know how to shoot at night , don't know how to use a wide angle lens and don't know how to use Photoshop so be gentle All constructive criticism welcome though
http://www.diarmuidc.net/gallery/v/2007/Various/

TJM

Some lovely colours there. Just a few random comments.

The images seem a bit soft - tripod wobbles?

DSC_1978 - for me there's more interest in the sky than the water, so I'd be inclined to try for 2/3 sky to 1/3 water rather than vice versa.

The location probably hampers these pictures. You're quite far away from the colourful waterfront, meaning that it's reduced to a relatively small band of light. Also, because you're quite low down, there's no sense of three dimensionality from the hills behind. If I were lucky enough to be in Nice I'd probably try for a higher vantage point along the lines of this (randomly found in Flickr) shot:



Or else possibly use a longer lens, take a series of photos of the waterfront and stitch them together into a panorama.

Incidentally, one of the many things I love about Flickr is the way in which you can come back from a location and immediately find out how others have interpreted it - although it can be dispiriting to see the shots you've missed.

[edited to add]Trawling through Flickr, one approach that seems to work well is to incorporate some nearby element in the foreground: