Night Shots with D70 and kit lens

[yeocsa]

Took these photo after the Melbourne Mini Meet. Had a great time meeting all the fellow photographers. Nice food too. cheers.

1. Reflection - 10secs at f22 ISO 800



2. CBD Night Skyscapers - 3secs at f11 ISO1250



regards,

Arthur Yeo

[kipper]

Geez, you didn't waste any time taking photos after the meet did you
I've only just got home and I didn't have time to breath.
As yeosca said, was great to meet everyone.....good to find out who you're finally typing to!

[Catcha]

Nice shot of Melbourne City..........love the night shots.

[birddog114]

How did the Admins treat you? Are they fine? They were so hard up here! once they are away, we're free
We can talk any language we want, Sig, Nik, Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, no problems and till they're back home.

[kipper]

If you're thinking about keeping the shot of the city, rotate the image a bit so that the horizon is level. Then crop the edges to remove the angled edges.

[flipfrog]

nice work!

how long is the shutter open on these?
what f stop?

[mudder]

G'day Arthur,
Really like the surreal feel to the first shot with the colored lighting... Very nice... Being picky here, the subject outlines (cars and trees) seem "soft" though, wonder if that's no sharpening or the really small aperture?

Cheers,
Mudder

[sirhc55]

Arthur - really like the atmosphere of the first shot. The starburst effect of the light reminds me of the thread about night photography and the use of a larger f-number to counter the star.

You obviously do not drink

[dooda]

I think that the first shot should be converted to Black and White. Lovely shapes like this would work well. Both pics are terrific though.

[yeocsa]

thanks for all the comments and advise as they are all very helpful.

All the shots taken were captured in a hurry ... because of the many mosquitos attacking my wife. So there's hardly any time.

Only had time to take 1 shot of the first picture and 2 of the second picture. None of the shots were planned. As I am not familiar with the city. As I drive around, I parked at the first parking space that I can find. The first one was along Swan Street. I mounted the 50mm lens set the aperture to f22. I know anything smaller than f11 will produce natural star effects. Notice the star effects of the street lights were reflected on the water. It was very dark and difficult to check on sharpness. But I must say that the cars were distracting and I plan to have them digitally removed.

I left the place after taking that picture on tripod.

The second picture would be much improved if taken on the bridge. The path on the river side kinda destroyed the composition. Again too many mosquitos.

Next time I will be better prepared with insect repellant.

By the way, the admins like the rest of the other members are all very nice friendly people, eager to share what they know of photography. It has been a good experience knowing them.


Regards,

Arthur

[Bruno]

hello Yeocsa,
i like both photos, the first one being the pick of the two, the reflection is great. I am just curious about your choice of ISO. Was it left on auto or did you purposely select them for effect?

Cheers

[yeocsa]

hello Yeocsa,
i like both photos, the first one being the pick of the two, the reflection is great. I am just curious about your choice of ISO. Was it left on auto or did you purposely select them for effect?

Cheers

Hi Bruno,

I was in a hurry. ISO was not on auto. I would prefer to see it at 200. It was at 800 because I taking some macro in the late evening. In the 2nd picture, I move the ISO to 1250 to short exposure time. Not bad for D70 at high ISO.

Cheers,

Arthur

[redline]

me like reflections, me not like noise.
At least your game enough to do some night photography.
I tried to take some shots of a wood saw factory a few nights ago and some guy approached me in the middle of nowhere mind you. I quickly packed up and leave the scene, position compromised.

[yeocsa]

me like reflections, me not like noise.
At least your game enough to do some night photography.
I tried to take some shots of a wood saw factory a few nights ago and some guy approached me in the middle of nowhere mind you. I quickly packed up and leave the scene, position compromised.

Hi

at least you are smart enough to leave the scene. may be you can try ask for permission to take picture first - even that it may be pretty dangerous. next time should go out as a group - safety in numbers

cheers

[redline]

the fence was locked to the factory, so i couldn't really call out asking to shoot. usually i would have stuff setup in the car ready to shot and go pull up to the area shoot and drive off. the person who approached my car as i drove up was definity not a factory worker and he was much too close for comfort, as if he wanted to car jack me.

saftey in numbers is good advice but its hard to call out ppl to take a couple of shots in the middle of the night or during the golden hour.
Hence i stopped doing it years ago, but class assignments called for this stuff so its going to be a drive-by.

[PlatinumWeaver]

Maybe we should make the next meet something to address this..

Maybe a casual dinner followed by a walk through some of the park and down along the yarra? We'd need to bring insect repellent and tripods/monopods for longer exposures..

Could be fun though, no?

[Matt. K]

Yeah. And carry side arms or hire some security. Melbourne is creepy at night...unlike Sydney. Come visit Campbelltown and check out the hospitality.

[kipper]

Yep, maybe an earlier sort of dinner on a weekend around 5pm so that we get finished quite early.

Btw, I need a compactflash for my brain. I tended not to remember everyones name/nick to the face at the meet. So with great embarassment I ask this, but was redline there?

[birddog114]

Yep, maybe an earlier sort of dinner on a weekend around 5pm so that we get finished quite early.

Btw, I need a compactflash for my brain. I tended not to remember everyones name/nick to the face at the meet. So with great embarassment I ask this, but was redline there?

You haven't remember me too, I was there last night also, sat near Leigh

[kipper]

It's sad but I can probably put the persons online name to a face easier then their realname.

[PlatinumWeaver]

Yeah. And carry side arms or hire some security. Melbourne is creepy at night...unlike Sydney. Come visit Campbelltown and check out the hospitality.

You only think Melbourne is creepy because it has some authentic atmosphere. Sydney however isn't creepy because a) It's a vanilla city and b) everyone is too angry to bother being furtive..

You haven't remember me too, I was there last night also, sat near Leigh

I'm pretty sure that was me actually.. hey wait...
wOOt!! I have all the lenses!! I am Birddog!!
Mmmmmmm 200-400VR!! D2x!!

It's sad but I can probably put the persons online name to a face easier then their realname.

This is probably pretty normal. I do think we need nametags though. Looking back on the night there are a few people I didn't speak to whose names remain a mystery to me.