Portland at night

Deacon

I went out on my second adventure shooting night scenes in Portland. Funny thing about night shooting I enjoyed is the forced slow down. Each shot takes time and causes me to slow down and look at what I am shooting rather than fire off numbers hoping for one that works!

Here are some examples:























Thanks for looking,

Deacon

Angelo

YIKES!!!!

Can you please stack the photos vertically for ease of viewing?

adrian_k

cool set, great sharpness & colour.

1) maybe it's my eyes, but the reflections are at a different angle and that gives the impression that the horizon is not straight.
2) I don't like that black band of the shoreline, it's like a black hole - i'd try cropping just the tent.
3) pity about the pillar and the odd flare(?) in the sky.
4) terrific - almost perfect exposure, maybe a little longer? I love the totally black BG and the fact that there is *no* other detail. The letters/logo mean nothing to mean & that's part of the appeal - just abstract.

Deacon wrote:

I went out on my second adventure shooting night scenes in Portland. Funny thing about night shooting I enjoyed is the forced slow down. Each shot takes time and causes me to slow down and look at what I am shooting rather than fire off numbers hoping for one that works!

Thanks for looking,

Deacon

System

very nice photos-

if I may:

your vertical looks a little off on most of them which, if corrected, might correct the horizontal some-
if you're using ps, you can go to view>show>grid and then crop and use the bowed arrows outside the crop to turn the pic and use the grid for guidelines-

did you shoot in raw (the photos, that is)-color balance could stand a little correction, if possible; some pics are too yellow-

can you lose the tree in the first one and the post in the third?-

don't get me wrong; I really like your shots-

nice job-

george

Scott_Quier

gefillmore wrote:

if you're using ps, you can go to view>show>grid and then crop and use the bowed arrows outside the crop to turn the pic and use the grid for guidelines-

An even easier way to get the horizon "level" (I have this problem a lot, so I use this method very frequently) is to use the measuring tool to draw a line that "should" be horizontal. For example, looking across a river, the water line at the opposite shore should be horizontal.

• Click on a spot where the water meets the shore.
• Drag to another spot in the photo where the water meets the shore.
• Release.
• Now, (working from memory here as I'm at work) Image -> Rotate -> Arbitrary Amount. The amount to rotate the image is automagically filled in for you based on the angle between your measure tool line and the horizontal.
• Click OK and watch the magic

This also works for getting verticals, well, vertical. For example, draw the line along the side of a building, vertically. Do the arbitrary rotation thing. The amount is, again, automagically filled in for you, only now it's the difference between your line and vertical. Cool stuff.

System

Scott-

thanks-

I did not know that one-

george

Scott_Quier

gefillmore wrote:

Scott-

thanks-

I did not know that one-

george

I don't get the credit for that one - read it in a book somewhere.

Deacon

good comments
Thanks for the tips/comments. I will work on them tonight and see how much I can improve them!

Deacon

System

deacon-

looking forward to it!-

scott-

ahh, but you passed it on-

george