Nightscape

Angelo

Please give your comments on this, my first night landscape in a very long time. Los Angeles sprawl...

I didn't do anything to this file except convert it from RAW to jpg (I see some artifacts from the compression)
This version's WB was set at cloudy:



I set the WB a bit cooler on this version in Capture:



Thanks for looking

jeff lapoint

Angelo,

I dig it, but I may be biased as a true blue socal man:D.

I would like to see more/a bigger downtown as a central focus. Although in that way the image kinda embodies the LA urban sprawl...my eye searches for 1 main center of intrest to lead to the others but gets a bit overwhelmed.

Where did you take this shot from? Hope to be back shooting with you guys soon and keep pumping out these night shots of LA--we certainly have a goldmine of subject material out there!

-j

DavidTO

Angelo,

Where'd you shoot that from? That's very similar to the view from my office, the CNN building at Cahuenga and Sunset.

DavidTO

Also, check out Andy's Nightshot Processing Tutorial.

gubbs

jeff lapoint wrote:

Angelo,


I would like to see more/a bigger downtown as a central focus. Although in that way the image kinda embodies the LA urban sprawl...my eye searches for 1 main center of intrest to lead to the others but gets a bit overwhelmed.


-j

too much to look at

Angelo

jeff lapoint wrote:

Angelo,

I dig it, but I may be biased as a true blue socal man:D.

I would like to see more/a bigger downtown as a central focus. Although in that way the image kinda embodies the LA urban sprawl...my eye searches for 1 main center of intrest to lead to the others but gets a bit overwhelmed.

Where did you take this shot from? Hope to be back shooting with you guys soon and keep pumping out these night shots of LA--we certainly have a goldmine of subject material out there!

-j

Jeff you're quite right and I should've qualified my original statement. This was an experiment in tripod mounted, long exposure, night photography; and not so much an exercise in creative composition. I know of far better vistas to shoot in future after I nail the exposure "thang".

I took this from high in the Hollywood hills.

Angelo

DavidTO wrote:

Angelo,

Where'd you shoot that from? That's very similar to the view from my office, the CNN building at Cahuenga and Sunset.

David - you're office is mere blocks from me. This was shot curbside on a private road at the very top of Fairfax Avenue, high above Hollywood (I don't remember the actual street name) so I can see how you would recognize the view, looking south, as it is indeed the same, just about 1/2 mile west of Cahuenga.

(Your question reminds me of a night shot of the Arclight Theatre and Sunset Blvd I recall from my first days as a dGrinner, shot from the CNN parking lot, was that yours?)

Angelo

DavidTO wrote:

Also, check out Andy's Nightshot Processing Tutorial.

I will, thanks.

bfjr

Hey Angelo
1st thanks for the updates you sent have been reading in bits and pieces between work.

what others have said about shot is how I feel. Now that I have a proper tripod would like to try myself.

All you L. A. guys and gals why don't we set up a meet at the top of Baldwin hills for some landscape practice. Excellent view of city from there.

here's a shot from that area

DavidTO

Angelo wrote:

(Your question reminds me of a night shot of the Arclight Theatre and Sunset Blvd I recall from my first days as a dGrinner, shot from the CNN parking lot, was that yours?)

Yep, from the roof of the parking garage at work...

Angelo

DavidTO wrote:

Yep, from the roof of the parking garage at work...

Very cool. I'm reminded of it everytime I walk by the theater.