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Long Exposure C&C

  • 10-02-2008 9:36pm
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    Danbo!
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    First time poster in here, long time lurker.

    Finally got my first DSLR, and am loving it. Ive been looking into getting a D40 for a bout a month or two now and I hear its a decent starting point. Managed to pick one up last week in Italy for €360 :) with 18-55 kit lens. Absolute bargain. After messing around with it for a while, I took this shot and then played with the colors in photoshop to get rid of the sodium glow yellow/orange.
    Have attached both images. Any comments appreciated, go easy im new to all this!


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  • #2
    AnCatDubh
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    hi noblestee - congrats €360 seems rather good (€585 on pix mania!).

    Ok on the positive side and of the two samples posted, my guess is the edited one is probably the best. Quite a reasonable resurrection of an image where the illumination of the street lights in the original as caught by the long exposure kinda saturates the shot with the orange glow - its a bit like having a look at the Dublin skyline from the mountains - you see the glow. So i think nice work in what you did in post processing it.

    On the constructive side - I'm sure you are in experimental mode with the DSLR and probably in time will focus on particular scenes. With regard to those posted and without meaning to offend, i think the scene chosen is pretty...... em.... ordinary ??? Just a suggestion but have a look through some of the thread history of the forum. There are a number of excellent examples of night time photography around Dublin. It does generally mean a planned trip to a particular scene / location and at a particular time. I'm thinking once you master the 'out the back window' type of shot that you'll be well up for it.

    Good luck with the D40, welcome to posting land - be prepared for matchsticks under the eyes as it can get quite addictive. hehehehehehhhhh ;o)


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