Beach at Night

robandjazzy

Taken at night on vacation with a 50mm 1.4 Nikor 8 second exposure Nikon D2xs

robandjazzy

any thoughts?

torags

Weak in color.

Have you tried B&W & boosting contrast?

NeuralLotus

torags wrote:

Weak in color.

Have you tried B&W & boosting contrast?

Actually, I think it looks pretty good in color. It looks kind of like a miniature of some strange alien world. It actually kind of reminds me of Krypton. I think in black and white it wouldn't feel quite as secluded as it does now.

Well, at the same time, I am at school right now, and these monitors generally are undersaturated, so it might be playing tricks on me right now. But, as it looks on here, I think it looks rather good.

I will point out, however, that it does look a little washed out in places, so perhaps a small boost in contrast would be good.

Eia

The first thing it reminded me of was something from Star Trek...cool...I like it. It would be interesting to see the colors punch.

kscott

robandjazzy wrote:

Taken at night on vacation with a 50mm 1.4 Nikor 8 second exposure Nikon D2xs

how about a 30 second or even several minute exposure of this....it has a lot of possibilities. If the ambient light is too bright you could always go to a smaller aperture like f-18, or so...

robandjazzy

Working on it, I've just started to work in aperature, any shots I have are exactly the way I shot them, but am slowly learning to do adjustments. Wish I took this in Raw I'd be able to do a lot more with it. I never thought of that as a newbie, increasing the F stop to kill the ambient light. Thanks for the tip, I took this in Black and White and thought it looked a lot better in color.