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San Francisco, CA. Night shooting with my buddies Marcus Armani and Hernan Rios.
Jason McKeown wrote. Nice capture Yamil, a little noisy though. colours are good, were we out after night herons LOL
Yamil Saenz wrote Hi Jason, Thanks for your comment. With the blur tool I can get rid of some noise. Do you have any reccomendations? The Bay Area is very low in bird activity, don't even night herons, LOL. In the mean time, I am trying to do some night photography, but don't have much experience. Any help will be appreciated.
Best.
Yamil
Dave Stacey wrote I like this perspective on the bridge, Yamil! Another very nice night skyline and reflection. Dave
Bill Smith wrote Outstanding shot Yamil. Even got a few stars. I've been meaning to ask you about Marcus. I haven't seen anything posted by him in a while. How's he doing??? Bill
Jason McKeown wrote Ok my friend here goes from my POV of things to do/look at for night shots. 1. shoot the lowest ISO possible of your camera 2. use a Tripod 3. use your camera and lenses to fill the frame and compose the shot, and only crop to make Panos or if there is something on the edge to get rid of. 4. use a shutter release and if your camera has it, mirror lockup 5. use a Tripod 6. shoot at between f8-16 7. Don't be afraid to use the bulb setting if your camera has it. 8. know how to work out timings over 30sec( most cameras limits prior to Bulb) e.g. 8sec@F4 = 15sec@F5.6 = 30sec@F8 = 60sec@F16 9. Get good separation of the subject to the BG, shooting the hour before sunrise and the hour after sunset will do this nicely and every minute will produce different colours in the sky. 10. Shoot RAW if you can, this way you have the greatest control over the shot and how it looks.
hope this helps, any more questions do not hesitate to drop us a line.
Cheers Mate. Jason
Yamil Saenz wrote Dear Bill. Thanks for your comment. Marcus is doing great. He recently bought a house and has been working in home improvement most of his time. Here is the link to his web site. http://www.armaniphotography.com/ Take care. Yamil
Yamil Saenz wrote Dear Jason, You really went out of your way to help me to improve my images. Thank you very much. Next time I will take your recommendations in account. Please take a look at my two latest posts. I got rid of some of that nasty noise. Let me know what do you think.
Dear Sam, Thank you very much for taking the time and for your advise. I really need help improving my landscapes. This is a project that I always wanted to work. Next time I will put in practice all Armani's, Jason's and your recommendations.
This looks fine with the way you cropped it. But if you want a bit more attention to the bridge and skyline, then perhaps cropping the image in pano format would compliment the long bay bridge. Looking at the image, If the top of your pano crop was about inch above the tallest part of the bridge and the bottom part of your pano crop was about 1/2 to 1 inch below where the reflection of the land starts to curve on the left hand side. that would still keep your shot in the rules of thirds and tighten it up enough to bring the viewers eyes where you want them. The Curve of the shore line and reflection draw the eyes up and diagonaly to the bridge where they would go horizontally to the right ending up at the BG(SKYLINE) and then they would go back left and up the bridge spiers.
Jason gave you GREAT advice.
Always shoot at the lowest posible F stop. I would have shot this at F-22 for about 1min30sec. ISO would have been 50 on my camera. but on your 20D it would have been ISO 100.
Canon Sells a shutter release for the 20D cost about 80.00 dollars. USE AT All times your mirror lock up. You can access that in the MENU button. scroll down to custom settings press the enter key(inside the circle dial) find mirror lock up and select enable. Remember. If you have any filters, you can still use them at night. using a polarizer filter will slow your shutter speed down by 2 or 3 stops. I have used them at night to really make the reflections pop. The filter that I would have used on the shot if any at all. would have been my 3stop soft grad ND filter. Placing the horizon line of the filter along the horizon line of your shot. using one of those filters would have allowed you to expose the foreground more without over exposing the skyline or bridge.
Any way you look at it my friend. You did a great job with this.
Makes me happy to see you delving into Landscapes!!!!
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