More Foggy Bridge and Boats in the Glow

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi all.

Here's some shots from this morning, taken with my 350D and tripod. Went on my way to work, looking for some nice place to photograph around the Hawkesbury River area.

If you're after any other technical info about the shots, just let me know and I'm happy to post the relevant info.

Very pleased with how these turned out.

The second bridge shot is the one posted in the other thread, repeated here for completeness.

Attachments 5 and 6 are the same shot, but 2 versions - a red tone and a blue tone. Appreciate your feedback and I can't decide which one I prefer

Thanks for looking.

[ving (David)]

[RB (Andrew)]

I'm interested in the technical info Mike.

[Volans]

Holy Snapping Camera Shutters Iceman!!!

Those bridge pictures are awesomely amazing. A case of right place right time and the right person behind the lens...you have captured a wonderful scene Mike...be proud, be VERY proud.

As for the red vs blue in the last two images: I was initially going to suggest the red one but then upon a closer look I believe the blue has a touch more detail in it and the blue lends a "colder" feel to the scene which, considering it is an early morning shot, seems to fit. The red makes it look warmer but when you know it's an early morning shot then it does not make sense.

Top effort all around.

Peter.

[sheeny (Al)]

Excellent composition in the second bridge one and the first boatsglow one. Good use of the 1/3 rule.

Existing light photography can be so rewarding!

Al.

[acropolite (Phil)]

To me they're all pleasing to the eye, you certainly have your exposure/filters finely honed Mike, exposure, filter and processing details would be nice.

[h0ughy (David)]

Pretty ordinary effort there Mike. What was the box brownie set up on?

[davidpretorius]

brilliant, you could make a picture of my ugly dial look good!

They are fantastic!

[iceman (Mike)]

Many thanks for your comments, especially Peter! You make me blush!

I'll post the technical capture and processing details tomorrow, as I couldn't bothered hooking the external drive up to get the EXIF info from the RAW files Sorry, will do it in the morning

But I didn't use any filters - they were all straight out of the stock 18-55mm lens.

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi again

Some details on the shots above:

All shot in RAW, with the stock 18-55mm lens. No filters were used.

1. 35mm @ f/10, 20s exposure @ ISO100.
2. 22mm @ f/10, 30s exposure @ ISO100.
3. 24mm @ f/10, 30s exposure @ ISO100, plus fill flash to light the chair.
4. 34mm @ f/10, 20s exposure @ ISO400.
5. 34mm @ f/10, 20s exposure @ ISO400.
6. Same as above, with levels adjustment in photoshop to get the blue tone.

All RAW's were processed in RawShooterEssentials, some more than others. Usually involved tweaking the colour temperature and tint to get the tone that I liked. Once converted to 300dpi 16-bit TIFF, in photoshop they were simply reduced in size and sharpened for web viewing. 2 shots (3 and 4) were cropped slightly to give a better perspective.

The originals look almost exactly the same as these processed ones, some with just more orange glow from the sodium lights which I wanted to reduce.

Thanks