Learning the perfect nightscape shot.

Stinky · 16 Apr 2013 at 09:50

Hi guys.

Ive just been to Bangkok and stayed in a place with a roof top bar / restaurant so took advantage for my amateur photography skills and would like some tips / thoughts on these pics below.

I have adjusted the saturation and gamma on these to bring out the lights.

What do you think? other than that its as it left the camera.

F22, ISO100, 30second exposure.

Stinky · 16 Apr 2013 at 13:44

thats a great shot. this is my first time playing with night shots. so am all about the learning.

i balanced this on a wall with the strap under the lens ha, with 2sec timer to avoid shake. so not sure where it has come from

Stinky · 16 Apr 2013 at 13:51

is there anything i can do to improve these shots? i am just uploading another night shot i did. but now you have mentioned it they all seem slightly blury ha. time was short and i had nothing to get them off the card at the time

Stinky · 16 Apr 2013 at 13:52

Stinky · 16 Apr 2013 at 14:09

ahhh rubbish, well i guess theres an excuse to go back to Thailand soon

Stinky · 16 Apr 2013 at 14:16

ManCuBuS said:
Not got anything to add as Ray has pretty much covered it all already.

Have you got an uncompressed original you could upload so I can have a play and maybe give you some tips regarding the processing?

yea no problem will get that up now.

here another day time one i really liked

Stinky · 16 Apr 2013 at 14:28

originals

Stinky · 16 Apr 2013 at 15:12

few more originals here, some have dodgy bits of building in shot ha.

if you want the original emailed to play with ManCuBuS let me know

Stinky · 16 Apr 2013 at 15:13

ManCuBuS said:
Any full size originals fella that haven't been resized?

can you send me your email address ill ping them over. i cant seem to get the full size up :/

Stinky · 16 Apr 2013 at 20:30

Wow that looks good!

I'll defo shot at around f8 now then! Thanks a lot for that! Got myself a tripod on the way now to! Just need to find some nice sunset ps etc

Stinky · 16 Apr 2013 at 20:31

Could you end me back the edit pics please?

Stinky · 17 Apr 2013 at 09:04

looks great. wont let me view the full size image

Stinky · 17 Apr 2013 at 09:34

No problem, i really appreciate the tips etc. as i said its my first real attempt at night stuff with long exposure etc. so im happy to receive the thoughts and criticism from you guys. gives me something to work on next time i get out at night

Stinky · 17 Apr 2013 at 22:16

Any chance you could ping them over buddy?

Stinky · 18 Apr 2013 at 09:21

Ok no problem! Nightmare!!

Stinky · 19 Apr 2013 at 09:06

thank you very much guys.

i am just getting my tripod sorted. also have a ND filter .8 wondering weather to take on some waterfall type stuff. maybe i should nail this first haha