A couple of dusky buildings

wxwax

Best time of day to shoot a building, although tonight's skies weren't clear enough, and tonight's photographer wasn't skilled enougn.

gus

like the 2nd one mate...

gubbs

Me too!!

cletus

ian408

Waxy,

Nice job on both of them. I think you under estimate your skills.

The second is pretty cool because it's a reminder that even though the
building is new, the reaper is waiting...nice composition!

Ian

wxwax

Thank u all. It's fun to wander around looking for shots.

lynnma

wxwax wrote:

Best time of day to shoot a building, although tonight's skies weren't clear enough, and tonight's photographer wasn't skilled enougn.

Both great Sid..what time of night was it...

wxwax

lynnma wrote:

Both great Sid..what time of night was it...

Hi Lynn. That would have been between 8 and 8:30pm or so. The sun was well out of the sky. But for a while afterwards, there's a lovely dark blue cast that cameras capture really well on long exposures (although the bucket shot was only 2 seconds.) Works better when the sky is clear - that night was cloudy, didn't work quite as well.

Learned that from Patch29.

wxwax

One more dusky building. Guess I should change the name of the thread, now.

patch29

wxwax have you ordered a tilt-shift lens yet? Time to correct those converging lines. The colors are looking a better. I think a clear night will look a lot better, more electric blue.

wxwax

patch29 wrote:

wxwax have you ordered a tilt-shift lens yet? Time to correct those converging lines. The colors are looking a better. I think a clear night will look a lot better, more electric blue.

Stop spending my money! I've given it a little thought. Maybe I should give it more thought - I do shoot a lot of buildings. I agree about the clear skies and electric blue. Maybe I should have electric blue skies on file, ready to layer into shots like this.

tibu

At what time?
Nice shots. The colors look very nice

What time is this taken? Right after dusk?

Carlos

wxwax

Hi Carlos. Yup, all were taken sometime between 7:30pm and 8:30 pm... the sun was below the horizon, although it was cloudy enough that the exact time of sunset is hard to measure. All the shots have at least one layer mask, as I combined different expoures to make the buildings/tree/bucket lighter and the sky darker.

tibu

Hi

wxwax wrote:

Hi Carlos. Yup, all were taken sometime between 7:30pm and 8:30 pm... the sun was below the horizon, although it was cloudy enough that the exact time of sunset is hard to measure. All the shots have at least one layer mask, as I combined different expoures to make the buildings/tree/bucket lighter and the sky darker.

So they are taken using a tripod and the doing bracketing?

I have to learn to do that technique :-)

wxwax

tibu wrote:

Hi


So they are taken using a tripod and the doing bracketing?

I have to learn to do that technique :-)

Here you go, tibu. The link is to a thread here describing how it's done. To use more than two exposures for layering, just do two to start with. When you're done, Flatten and add the next image, Flatten again and so on.

Incredibly useful technique. Can also be used for putting a bit of color back in B&W photos, assuming the original was in color.

damonff

That tree looks cool.

wxwax wrote:

One more dusky building. Guess I should change the name of the thread, now.