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Was in Canberra last week so I had to take the usual tourist photo:


25s, f/5.6, 70mm, ISO100, 3 shot HDR (I think)

I am still coming to terms with HDR, so feedback is appreciated.

You can see some other shots via the gallery thread.

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

wow, I haven't seen the old and the new Parliament house look like that -looks really fantastic, great photo.
You were on the "other side of the lake" - towards the War Memorial ?
What time of night did you take the shot ?
May I suggest that you crop this photo tightly so that the reflections in the lake only become a very small proportion of the image ?
This will turn it sort of into a pano - have the old Parliament House in the lower part (just below half) of the image - have the roof of Questacon being almost the center of the image horizontally..
Again, very nice.
Have you been to Floriade ?


Thanks for sharing,
CD

That's a fantastic shot! Love the colour and composition. Well done!

Alex

Nice one! Pink and Green though? What are they thinking

Great image Daniel and unlike a lot of HDR shots this looks real if that makes sense. I think Christian's cropping idea is worth examining too.

The pink lights are part of Breast Cancer Month where buildings around the country are lit up in pink to promote breast cancer awareness

Ahh that makes much more sense now, a worthy cause! Thanks Peter.

Thanks everyone.

christiand wrote:You were on the "other side of the lake" - towards the War Memorial ?
What time of night did you take the shot ?

That's right. There is a nice lookout there, directly between the War Memorial and Parliament, right down by the water.
I think it was about 8:30pm.

christiand wrote:May I suggest that you crop this photo tightly [...]

Hmm... Here's the crop you suggested.

I'm not sure... I don't know if the shot has the image quality to be viewed like this (the 18-70dx is good but not perfect). There is some CA showing on on each side, now I look closely.

christiand wrote:Have you been to Floriade ?

No, I didn't get there.

stubbsy wrote:Great image Daniel and unlike a lot of HDR shots this looks real if that makes sense.

Thanks. I have trouble making the HDR shots look real. Otherwise I might use HDR more often.
More practice I guess...

stubbsy wrote:The pink lights are part of Breast Cancer Month where buildings around the country are lit up in pink to promote breast cancer awareness

Ah, I wondered if that was the reason. It was certainly a bold colour.

Daniel

Very nice indeed! Lovin' the colours and silky water..

Hi Daniel,

thanks a lot for your response (reply).
I love the way you cropped the image to an allmost panoramic shot of the two parliament buildings.
Are you going to get that one printed ? It has to be worthwhile - it is a great shot
Is the pink illumination of the old parliament house only happening for a limited period of time because of ladies breast cancer awereness week or so ?

Again, thanks a lot for sharing - I think you have taken a lovely image.

Cheers,
CD

Thanks Pehpsi, Christiand

christiand wrote:thanks a lot for your response (reply).

No problem.

christiand wrote:I love the way you cropped the image to an allmost panoramic shot of the two parliament buildings.

Thanks for the suggestion.

christiand wrote:Are you going to get that one printed ? It has to be worthwhile - it is a great shot

I might do. I don't print many photos, but every now and then I'll get a batch done.

christiand wrote:Is the pink illumination of the old parliament house only happening for a limited period of time because of ladies breast cancer awereness week or so ?

We believe it is for the awareness campaign. I don't know how long it will be like that. It may have finished now. Can't you pop past and check?

Daniel

Great shot Daniel. I like the pano crop. Shame about the crane on the left hand side, but that is part of city life and progress.

CraigVTR wrote:Shame about the crane on the left hand side, but that is part of city life and progress.

Thanks. Yes the crane is a shame. It doesn't look as bad at night as it did during the day. Great yellow thing looming out there...

Daniel