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nelmr · Jun 10, 2005, 8:11 AM

Here is a resized to 35% size a night shot that has been cropped from my Fuji S5100. Comments welcome.

GeorgeNC · Jun 10, 2005, 8:40 AM

Great capture of the night lights. I would suggest cropping the houseboat out of the foreground:

creeduk · Jun 10, 2005, 12:52 PM

Or you could silhouette both boats to leave the interesting shape still inplace but less distraction.

nelmr · Jun 10, 2005, 1:41 PM

Creeduk, I really like your suggestion.

May I ask how you blacked out the boat house? Layers?

And howdid you lighten the image and keep the blacks black and the detail around the lights? I assume this is more than just gamma andbrightness/contrast.

creeduk · Jun 10, 2005, 3:59 PM

I duplicated the layer then added some liberal shadows and highlights (photoshop CS and above) (most can be done with sume subltle levels. Then I changed the layer type to screen and changed the opacity until it looked good. I then masked back the original sky becasue it looks better dark. Ithen made another layer copy and masked it so only the boats showed, now using a combination of levels and burn (set to burn highlights) I made the boats silouette.

I have just looked at this thread on my laptop (I made the post on my PC with CRT at work) and the boats show through just a touch due to the Ultrasharp screen on the dell precision. So if any one views this on a laptop, I apologise and will fix this when I get a chance.

tim da tech · Jun 10, 2005, 6:07 PM

You should leave to house boat in, it gives the image spacial dimension.

ride16 · Jun 10, 2005, 7:14 PM

Great shot! I think I like it best with the house boat silhouette. Do you mind me asking what settings you were using? I'm assuming you used a tripod? I'm really new to this, but I'm trying to learn, and I can never get my night shots to look even half this good.

nelmr · Jun 17, 2005, 10:42 AM

Seting were 6 second exposure with ISO 64 and focus set to infinity (at least I think it was). Anyway I didn't have a tripod with me so I had to sit the camerea ontop of the car I was driving and it worked pretty well. Looking back I should have tried a slightly longer exposure to saturate the seem a little better instead of post editing to brighten it up a bit which adds some noise.

S1Artiste · Jun 17, 2005, 1:56 PM

I'd like to see a longer exposure, too- in order to bring out more details in the buildings in the center and the bridge. In doing so, I'd take out the bright buildings on the right- as they will likely get overexposed. To my taste, I think they're already too bright as it is to blend well with the rest.

Jun 10, 2005, 8:11 AM	#1
nelmr Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 493	Here is a resized to 35% size a night shot that has been cropped from my Fuji S5100. Comments welcome. Attached Images

Jun 10, 2005, 8:40 AM	#2
GeorgeNC Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 120	Great capture of the night lights. I would suggest cropping the houseboat out of the foreground: Attached Images

Jun 10, 2005, 12:52 PM	#3
creeduk Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 365	Or you could silhouette both boats to leave the interesting shape still inplace but less distraction. Attached Images

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Jun 10, 2005, 1:41 PM	#4
nelmr Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 493	Creeduk, I really like your suggestion. May I ask how you blacked out the boat house? Layers? And howdid you lighten the image and keep the blacks black and the detail around the lights? I assume this is more than just gamma andbrightness/contrast.

Jun 10, 2005, 3:59 PM	#5
creeduk Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 365	I duplicated the layer then added some liberal shadows and highlights (photoshop CS and above) (most can be done with sume subltle levels. Then I changed the layer type to screen and changed the opacity until it looked good. I then masked back the original sky becasue it looks better dark. Ithen made another layer copy and masked it so only the boats showed, now using a combination of levels and burn (set to burn highlights) I made the boats silouette. I have just looked at this thread on my laptop (I made the post on my PC with CRT at work) and the boats show through just a touch due to the Ultrasharp screen on the dell precision. So if any one views this on a laptop, I apologise and will fix this when I get a chance.

Jun 10, 2005, 6:07 PM	#6
tim da tech Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 114	You should leave to house boat in, it gives the image spacial dimension.

Jun 10, 2005, 7:14 PM	#7
ride16 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 501	Great shot! I think I like it best with the house boat silhouette. Do you mind me asking what settings you were using? I'm assuming you used a tripod? I'm really new to this, but I'm trying to learn, and I can never get my night shots to look even half this good.

Jun 17, 2005, 10:42 AM	#8
nelmr Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 493	Seting were 6 second exposure with ISO 64 and focus set to infinity (at least I think it was). Anyway I didn't have a tripod with me so I had to sit the camerea ontop of the car I was driving and it worked pretty well. Looking back I should have tried a slightly longer exposure to saturate the seem a little better instead of post editing to brighten it up a bit which adds some noise.

Jun 17, 2005, 1:56 PM	#9
S1Artiste Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 36	I'd like to see a longer exposure, too- in order to bring out more details in the buildings in the center and the bridge. In doing so, I'd take out the bright buildings on the right- as they will likely get overexposed. To my taste, I think they're already too bright as it is to blend well with the rest.