Some night shots

DrummerBoy

Ok well went out last night and tried to take some night shots. these aren't great (one tries to copy a photo I'd seen here too!:o ) All a learning experience.

Any help, pointers would be nice.

ThOnda

You will not like me...

They are good night shots, technically correct. However...

1st - I would like to see the street lamps as a row, not one over another, just to create some perspective.

2nd - absolutely brilliant, if there weren't those lamps. Put your tripod hehind the bars...

3rd - the shamrock could be complete...

I have told you - you will not like me... But I like your photos.

redrob13

While the shamrocks are cool, I wouldn't find them all that photo worthy by themselves. But that doesn't mean they're not worth incorporating as part of a composition, in that respect the first shot is more successful than the third for me. I think the first might've been improved if taken from an even lower angle possibly, so the railings become a more dramatic element taking full height of the frame and receding into the distance, the perspective then with the rows of lamps on trees would be all the more dramatic ... add to that some lights from a passing car or bus (like in the third one) and it might produce an image with more impact. But that's the sort of thing I might do, and I might like, others would be different, and its your picture.

I'd also suggest considering using a smaller aperture, then you get those nice star effects around the street lights etc., but some people hate that, so it's a matter of taste.

Last point, I'd find all the shots a bit too yellow for my liking (probably a result of the the streetlights). You could compensate for that when shooting by selecting a different WB, or after the fact either when processing the RAW file or if you weren't shooting RAW with a Levels adjustment layer.

I'd say the second one is the best of the lot, and with a little processing work I'd say it could be really good. Maybe a slight crop to tighten things up, maybe loose some of the space to the right of the lamp posts and the empty space on the left of the frame. A bit of adjusment to cool it down, and then some work to bring out the reflections. I played around with that one quickly, its not perfect but just to illustrate what I'm talking about. Of course, it's just a suggestion, but you can have a look if you like - DB2.jpg

Hope that's of some help

R

DrummerBoy

Thanks! that's pretty much the type of feedback I was looking for. Cheers for processing work on that pic Rob. Really helped me understand what you were talking about. I was in my own mind looking to take the photo theat had the same type of blue, cool hue to it. Just didn't know how to do it.

Cheers
A.

gravitylovesme

i really liked the 2nd one. it's beautiful.
in the third, it wasnt precisely horizontal, and it would have benifited from an elevated perspective.

over all NOICE!:)