Late Homework
A few days late, apologies.
These first two go together and are meant to show the changing light of sunset in the big city, but indirectly.
Warehouse.
Top: f4.0, 1/50, 100asa, 70mm (D)
Bottom: f3.5, 1/30, 800asa, 70mm (D)
Next up, the same sunset, but shot directly and zoomed in a tad for effect. Note the plane.
Hellfire
f5.0, 1/30, 800asa, 63mm (D)
There are more sunset ones, but I won't bore you. ... Ah, the hell with it.
Dusky Docks
f3.2; 1/20, 800asa, 35mm (D)
Now, if only I'd remeber to bracket it so I could HDR it...
Final entry: I've included this because of the lack of light. I shot this at night with ambient city light. ie, you could make out people but not features and no colours. I rested the camera on my knee for a long exposure (high tech, I know), hence the blur. There was a guy in the background selling light-wands. It looks a bit fuzzy on blogger, possibly because I reduced the size and it's up at 1600asa. Looks great full size, though.
Concert
f2.8, 1.6s, 1600asa, 24mm (D)
Sarah also did her homework, and hers is much more dynamic:
Like a Virgin
f22, 1/4, 400asa, 28mm (D)
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Well done to both of you, looks like your making the most of the summer.
ReplyDeleteBeing in places with nice light, clouds and beautiful sunsets is cheating
;-)
Hell fire.
Nice colour, shame the plane isn’t a bit bigger. Would have liked it zoomed in bit more to see the plane clearer and maybe crop the aspect more to accentuate the plane.
Dusky Docks
Lovely, but I'm a marine engineer so biased. As you say a HDR (or even a photoshop manual composite) on this would have been lovely to bring out the detail on the boats.
Composition is very strong with good thirds both on the horizontal and vertical.
Concert
1600 ISO :-( I can only go to 800 and it is VERY grainy on my camera.
"Dear Santa, I've been very good all year so I'd like a D1 for Christmas please."
Like a Virgin
Effect works really well with the neon. I assume that this is a zoom with the shutter open effect. I'd be tempted to PS in a still version of the Virgin to make it stand out a little bit clearer.
Well Done.
Cheers,
Richard B.
With the Hellfire shot, it doesn't get any bigger than that. I was zooming in on the sky for the colour on a photo similar to Dusky Docks. By chance (and by JFK being a super busy airport) there was a plane there which I hadn't even spotted until I zoomed in. Thanks to my trusty EF 24-70 f2.8L USM lens for picking up the detail!
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ReplyDeleteWelcome to that exclusive club of people who have done some shutterbug homework, and I am sure Richard is glad to have another shooter along who is nerdy enough to list all the camera settings with each and every shot ;0)
But enough of that, to the shots:
Warehouse.
Believe it or not of your shots these two are my favourate, but not as separate shots but as a pair. At first glance I thought they were one shot and I loved what I thought was a repetative pattern of horizontal rooves broken up by a couple of diagonals. This with the stark whitness of the diagonal roof against the warm softness of the reflected sunset. Nice.
However, as single shots I find the diagonal roof too distracting and would have prefered to have cropped it out or reframes. Weird how the work as a pair but not so much as a individuals
Hellfire - Nice colours etc but like Richard says, the plane needs to be bigger if it is going to be part of the shot, or else this shot needs somehting else in the foreground to give it context.
Dusky Docks - I really like this shot and is my favourate if we don't regard warehouse as a pair. Nice composition and nice that the sunset has been left as is and you havn't been tempted to ramp the colour up to make it over read. Would certianly have made a great HDR.
Sarah
ReplyDeleteLike your virgin shot, and ignore Richard, these shots are ALWAYS way more satisfying when they are done in camera. The photoshop versions are too clinical and perfect so as to not be right.
I like the vividness of the red against the relatively dark back ground - night shots of neon are great arn't they.
I would perhaps crop this slightly to get the Virgin logo dead center or perhaps even better cropped it square just to give it that punch. I think exciting shots always look even better when they are cropped away from the standard proportions (although I know Richard struggles to cope with that idea)
Only other thing is I would have taken this a few times and aimed to have a shot where there as circle say about 1/3 of the image in the middle of the shot that was sharp and in focus and then blurred out from there, but sadly it is only pot luck if you get that. But that is being very picky.