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If you can ignore the lense flare, please leave a commentHey guys.
Went out tonight but forgot to remove the UV filter and it put lots of lens flare on my shots. Anyhow, can you provide some feedback as to what I can improve? (I realise I should have gone off auto whitebalance, but what should I have chosen?) Thanks, Owen. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v198/ ... 1small.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v198/ ... 0small.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v198/ ... 0small.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v198/ ... 9small.jpg Thanks guys.
G'day smakkythecamel (:D), as for the colour cast - those street lights look like sodium lamps. There's no white balance setting available to make them look right, as they don't conform to the black body radiation/temperature scale of traditional light sources that camera white balance settings are calibrated to. Have a look in the Tutorials section of these forums, where Cricketfan has written a white balance tutorial that covers setting white balance by manual preset. You will get excellent results shooting with manual preset.
Other than the flare issue which you've already identified, I think they are compositionally good nightshots - albeit a little too "what's the subject"-ish (my polite way of saying no central focus - aka what's the main subject point you want the viewer's eye attracted to?)
Hmm so having a UV filter on when doing night long exposures causes lense flare?
EDIT: ok so it does http://www.vanwalree.com/optics/filterflare.html This is interesting, i thought UV filters would help stop this kinda thing, obviously not, might go out about tomorrow night and test it out, with one on and one off.
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