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After we had dinner in Melbourne, we walked around blasting off photos for a couple of hours... Jules's shots will be better as he had the sense to use a tripod...

Here is the first of mine.

Noice Toad. I haven't been to Melbourne before...

Beautiful ... I have always admired the color in your night pictures... I love the color in the of the sidewalk... kind of green?... It looks like a really lovely place ...

Idea is great, but I that light in the corner is burning the image I find. Focus is good, composure is great other than that photo. Maybe take two of the same shot with the light not exposured in one shot and blend it in to help stop it from distracting the rest of the shot.

Did you bring the tripod with you on your travels?

I have to learn how to take these kind of night shots ( and your PP work ) . Nice job Toad ..



..... Shawn

Thank you everyone for the feedback.

JB: sorry you don't like the glare of the light. I have a few shots of the scene without the light, and deliberately chose this one because I like the contrast between the hard glaring light and the tranquility of the rest of the scene. When I shot it, I was thinking of the harsh, contrsty lighting in Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks".

I guess that will teach me not to be derivative...

Banded Drake Wrote:I have to learn how to take these kind of night shots ( and your PP work ) Shawn

Actually, Shawn, night photos like these are easy and require less PP than most daylight work.
The colors come from the different chemistry of the lights one finds in public, ie: sodium vapor lamps cast yellow/orange light, mercury vapor shows as green on digital cameras, flouros are blue, and then there are the combinations of light/reflective surface.
For PP a touch of levels and some unsharp mask is all I ever use, myself.

All you need is a tripod and a long exposure.
I usually underexpose at --0.3 to --0.7EV or so to preserve the feeling of 'night'.


Toad, I leave bright 'burnt' lights in my night photos as well for the reason you stated.
They're part of the scene, especially as the source of the little building's shadow, and when you're out at night and your pupils are big, bright lights are often painful to look at and this is best represented with the look yours has.

They look like something out of a myth. Wonderful style.