A couple city shots

dseidman

I haven't taken any new pictures for over a month so here's some more old stuff. I wish I wasn't so busy all the time. Although, I have to admit that I spent this past weekend doing absolutely nothing. I guess I also wish that I wasn't so lazy...

Anyway, here are a couple from last June. I was lucky in that I captured both in the same day (or night, I should say). The first was shot at Rizal Bridge for sunset. I then rushed to Kerry Park because I heard that on that particular night, the moon was to rise behind the Space Needle. Sure enough, it happened.

What are your thoughts?

Jack'll do

Wow!! These are absolutely outstanding. I've never seen a close-up of the needle... very nice indeed. clap Now get out there and shoot.

dlplumer

Exquisite Daniel. Love how you got the moon behind the needle

Tango

stunning.

exif data on #2 pls:D

dseidman

Thanks everyone!

AaronNelson wrote:

stunning.

exif data on #2 pls:D

I had to do a rather complicated manual blend of three exposures. One of the Moon itself, another for the sky around the Moon, and the third was for the Space Needle. The Moon's size and placement are exactly the same as in the originals. The differences in light levels were far too great for a single shot. There were a lot of photographers shooting this scene that night so a week later I searched for results on both Flickr and Google and found that the moon was blown out in almost all the images I saw of this scene. I just wanted to present something a little different.

Here's the relevant EXIF data that all three exposures share:
Canon 40D
Sigma 100-300 f/4 @ 276mm and f/6.3
ISO 100
exposures < 1 second

I chose ISO 100 because I wanted to keep the noise low, as this was shot in dark conditions with the 40D.
I had to make sure the exposure was less than a second long to keep the Moon from motion blurring at this long focal length. To achieve this, f/6.3 was the most I could stop the lens down.

I hope this was the information you were looking for.

Tee Why

They are both very nice.
I like the first one more b/c of the dynamic leading lines that leads up to the city/buildings.

coscorrosa

I like both, I've done that same composition on #1, it's my favorite comp from the bridge. The needle shot is awesome, good call on the double exposure, otherwise it wouldn't have been as dramatic.

But what I'm really curious is where do you hear about the moon rising behind the space needle at Kerry Park? Is there some mailing list I need to be on for such things?

dseidman

coscorrosa wrote:

I like both, I've done that same composition on #1, it's my favorite comp from the bridge. The needle shot is awesome, good call on the double exposure, otherwise it wouldn't have been as dramatic.

But what I'm really curious is where do you hear about the moon rising behind the space needle at Kerry Park? Is there some mailing list I need to be on for such things?

It's called the internet, sir.
I guess only in June does the full moon rise behind the Space Needle. If I had been there a few days earlier I would have had the opportunity to capture it shortly after sunset. I think I'll try for that this year.

annnna8888

Spectacular, both of them. Great work with the triple exposure!

Ana

Tango

dseidman wrote:

Thanks everyone!



I had to do a rather complicated manual blend of three exposures. One of the Moon itself, another for the sky around the Moon, and the third was for the Space Needle. The Moon's size and placement are exactly the same as in the originals. The differences in light levels were far too great for a single shot. There were a lot of photographers shooting this scene that night so a week later I searched for results on both Flickr and Google and found that the moon was blown out in almost all the images I saw of this scene. I just wanted to present something a little different.

Here's the relevant EXIF data that all three exposures share:
Canon 40D
Sigma 100-300 f/4 @ 276mm and f/6.3
ISO 100
exposures < 1 second

I chose ISO 100 because I wanted to keep the noise low, as this was shot in dark conditions with the 40D.
I had to make sure the exposure was less than a second long to keep the Moon from motion blurring at this long focal length. To achieve this, f/6.3 was the most I could stop the lens down.

I hope this was the information you were looking for.

thanks! very helpful info. clearly great work you have there! how did you do such a clean job on the railings and metal poles up top (did you use a select tool? or did you do some brushing?)

Nihil_Dicit

Very nice shots!

Basic question tho - which city is this?

dseidman

annnna8888 wrote:

Spectacular, both of them. Great work with the triple exposure!

Ana

Thanks for the comment, Ana!

AaronNelson wrote:

thanks! very helpful info. clearly great work you have there! how did you do such a clean job on the railings and metal poles up top (did you use a select tool? or did you do some brushing?)

I originally did gradient type blends to get the moon and the surrounding brightness to look natural. Of course this left halos and other weird look spots around smooth edges so I had to go back and modify the layer mask using the magic wand and lasso tool mostly.

Nihil_Dicit wrote:

Very nice shots!

Basic question tho - which city is this?

Thanks. This is Seattle, Washington.