Plymouth Seafront at night

[Amp34]

I went down to the seafront in Plymouth last night and a couple of nights before to have a go as long exposure seascapes. The shoreline is a bit cluttered with buildings, boats and bouys so I tried to see if I could bring them into the picture instead of fight against them. Here's the result.

First night:

It was horrible weather for photography, grey featureless cloud and spitting slightly, my sigma went out of action due to the rain/spray on the lens just destroying the images so I reverted to the good old kit lens, with the added advantage of being slightly wider.

Last night:

I was a bit dissappointed with a couple of the images I shot so I decided to go down again last night when the cloud was better. This one is a stich of two images, excuse the watermark in the middle of it, I only just found panorama factory and havent bought the licence yet so it sticks that on.

 

[Jobe]

nice. supprising how black and white changes how a picture looks.

jobe

 

[Amp34]

Thanks, and on that note (just to show how different they could be ) here's a colour version I just got round to doing.

There's a bit of an orange tinge at the left hand side unfortunately, I got rid of most of it but there is a little bit left.

And another shot from last Wednesday, also in colour. Stupidly I took the shots at ISO400 (didn't check the ISO) so after sticking them through Photomatix it was rather noisy. I decided to use noise nina to sort the noise out, adding to the softness due to HDR, have I gone too far?

Newer version of the previous shot

C&C welcomed

 

[mrk]

Those BW ones look very special, would not have thought of Plymouth looking at them! very nicely done

 

[Amp34]

Those BW ones look very special, would not have thought of Plymouth looking at them! very nicely done

Thanks,

There are a lot of interesting bits and pieces on the Plymouth Seafront, it's so very different to anywhere else I've seen.