Night shot with the 18-55mm

[spada]

Hi
This is my second try of the kit lens 18-55mm, it is not very well regards at all, but can not sell ( about $50 -70 ) because not many people want it, so I make use of it to do lanscape, and night shot , with the little el cheapo tripod. As usual I have to do a bit of sharpening in ACD.



Regards
spada

[Catcha]

Nice capture.....

[BBJ]

Looks good spada well done lens worked ok.

[spada]

Hi John
Thank for a nice commend, at long exposure there isn't much diferent between a good ( expensive ) and a kit lens , so I keep and use only for lanscape, night shot and when I need a wide angle .

Regards
Spada

[Alpha_7]

Nice shot Spada. I noticed a few nice shots recently added to your PixSpot gallery, good stuff!

[mudder]

G'day,
I noticed this on pixspot, might be a few little bits of hot highlights but looks bloody great!... Tempted to crop any of the height off (as in top and bottom) and make it more pano'ish???

This immediately grabbed me on pixspot, great image...

[spada]

Hi
Thank Craig and Andrew, your commends made me very happy .

Regards
Spada

[moggy]

Nice shot Spada, it's a lot better than anything I've done so far.

Bob.

[stubbsy]

spada

This shot is nicely composed and looks very good, but like Andrew, I think the blown highlights are a problem. It just misses the mark on greatness. Are the highlights this blown in the original or did this happen during PP? The areas that are worst are the pylon and Luna Park on the right of the image and the pylon and the boats around the Opera House on the left. If they aren't blown in the original I think you could get a signifcantly better result with some layering work in Photoshop if you have access to it.

[spada]

Hi Peter

I got the 4s, 6s , and the 8 s versions, below is the 4second version with less high light, and thank for remind me this.



Regards
Spada

[kipper]

Wrong time of day, wrong area to shoot from. Water and sky is too black for my liking. Find a spot that has good colorful reflections in the water.

[sirhc55]

Spada - I agree with Kipper but if you crop the water out and make it a panorama shot it will look pretty good

[spada]

Hi Darryl

Thank for this tip , next time I will take this into account before take pucture.

Regards
Spada

[stubbsy]

Spada. This is better, but definitely do the pano crop like has been suggested

[PiroStitch]

I prefer the first shot but as a pano crop Spada

[sheepie]

Spada - the second shot is far better. People tend to overexpose city night shots trying to get that extra bit of detail, but in so doing they loose so much in the highlights!
In the first, the Opera House was way over done (IMHO), and that put you off. The second has this with a much more natural level given it is night.
Use the spot meter, expose for the highlights, and experiment. Make sure you bracket all your night shots. If this was a 4 second shot, I'm wondering what aperture you used. Try (in my experience) around f8-f10.
Also, try the pano crop as suggested - I think you will be much happier

[spada]

Hi
Thank Piro Stitch , and Chris for recomendation, yes the crop look much better i am also happy with the crop.
Leon I am a newbie of the night shot and day shot too, the suggestion about bracketing shot is highly appreciated, I will make sure to do it in my future night shot, admittedly I never know about bracketing before,and thank for telling me that, and I will need a tripod ( I like the benro c227 and head ) but my powerful financial controler not approved.

Edit : The cameras used for this has 3 mode : Evaluative Metering , Partial Metering an centerweighted Average metering, so which one is the equivalent of nikon spot metering

Regards
Spada

[sirhc55]

Try centre weighted Spada on the night shots