Splendid Night shots by the water

[dooda]

I went camping with some friends this weekend with the goal of catching some more night exposures. This one is brand new, not sure about the light creeping into the right hand side and the noise is quite pronounced. Comments?


A while ago I took a similar photo to this next one and posted on this forum, but I did some things post processing that I wasn't happy with (the color of the shack came out sort of yellow and I really wanted it more of a true white and couldn't get the white back no matter what). The light is from a pulp mill across the bay so that's why I think that the shack turned yellow. So I took two more shots, with the goal of getting star trails. My battery ran out on the lower shot before the Noise reduction could finish creating the purple haze on the lower left. I tried to clone it out but that was tricky. I'll have to take this shot one more time





I took a portrait of a friends' kid that I kind of like. Don't look at his nostrils though, I cloned out some nasty looking crusties...okay now I know you're going to look. Is there a better way to get rid of that (like layers or something?)

[KerryPierce]

I went camping with some friends this weekend with the goal of catching some more night exposures. This one is brand new, not sure about the light creeping into the right hand side and the noise is quite pronounced. Comments?

Very nice. I like the star trails and stuff. Why the noise? High ISO?

I took a portrait of a friends' kid that I kind of like. Don't look at his nostrils though, I cloned out some nasty looking crusties...okay now I know you're going to look. Is there a better way to get rid of that (like layers or something?)

umm, wipe his nose?

use the crusty removal tool?

or the nostril oval clone tool?

Seriously, prolly the easiest way to fix something like that is to work on the side that is easiest, then select the area and promote it to a layer. Flip the layer horizontally and position it over the other side. The only issues then are matching the skin tones if the exposure is uneven.

[dooda]

Couldn't wipe it as it was all crustys, and we were camping so toilet paper wasn't exactly plentiful.

I think that I'd like to take the boat pic again, maybe focusing on the one boat on the left taken to the right of where I was standing. I find night exposures so much work, yet they are so rewarding. I hope that this get's more comments soon. Thanks for the advice, makes pretty good sense.

[sirhc55]

Dave - why blame the kid for the crusties as we all aware that it is your lens that needs a clean:D

[stubbsy]

Dave

You really have a way with words as well as with the camera . Of all the posters here, you are the one that gives rise to the most smirks when I read the posts (and yes I did look )

The first shot is pretty good, although the right hand boat is a little soft. The long exposure gives a sort of ethereal quality to the image. For the second shot I don't think this is as good as the original shot you took. I actually liked the yellow cast at the time (too lazy to go track down for a new look now) since it made for a more painterly image, whereas this one is a little less so.

[Finno]

I think these sorts of nighttime shots of baots are always going to be soft, due to their constant motion. The yacht looks great, perhaps a bit more light on it, and a greater tendency not to move, asside from its mast. Capturing that with the sky would look good.

Personally I wouldnt be able to pull any of these shots off, so ignore my comments at will.

[ozimax]

If a hanky, tissue or loo paper don't work, use a pressure hose!

Max

[dooda]

Here's a link to the original. I think that the angle and the wider landscape works better. The yellow doesn't look too bad on the screen, but printed out it kind of bothers me. Funny I thought the star streaks would have really nailed the shot, but the glowing clouds to me makes for more interest for some reason. Funny.

http://photos6.flickr.com/8960496_8e41a8adf6_o.jpg

[mic]

Doodles, great stuff, love the boats & the trails and the whole grainy feel.

Watch what you do with Layers, you might end up with Layers Of Crusties

Mic.

[stubbsy]

Dave.

Now you've relinked the original I've had another look. The original still works better for me for a number of reasons - the sweeping curve up to the building, the LACK of star streaks (I find them distracting - go figure) and the darker moodier nature of the shot. The more similar light intensities of the elements also work better since I like the way the whole image blends together. So far as yellow printing - if it's more yellow when printed than on screen either yyour printer or monitor or both need calibrating. Print output should be close to screen output or PP is a pain.

Of course I'm a strange beast so my view could be way wrong

Cheers

[dooda]

Good call Stubbsy, you definitely hit it bang on. The original is more complex but the different aspects link the shot well, as well as the different tones. BTW I appreciate the smirks comment (I think). I get a lot of strange reactions at work. I have this tendency to make really bizaare comments (according to them) and shocking stories. I say it makes the world more colorful, but most of them would prefer that I didn't I think.

[stubbsy]

Good call Stubbsy, you definitely hit it bang on. The original is more complex but the different aspects link the shot well, as well as the different tones. BTW I appreciate the smirks comment (I think). I get a lot of strange reactions at work. I have this tendency to make really bizaare comments (according to them) and shocking stories. I say it makes the world more colorful, but most of them would prefer that I didn't I think.

Smirks are good. Although I still have this horrible image in my head of you puking through your nipples and you made that comment months ago

[dooda]

I do believe it was bleeding through my nipples, but hey I guess i might have gone the extra few yards and say puke...but yech, that's disgusting. I can see bleeding, but puking? It's also a little weird.

[stubbsy]

I do believe it was bleeding through my nipples, but hey I guess i might have gone the extra few yards and say puke...but yech, that's disgusting. I can see bleeding, but puking? It's also a little weird.

Well Dave, being an anal bastard I had to go and do a search on this, didn't I

In this one you puke through your nipples and in this one you just bleed through them. You really give that body a workout

[dooda]

Oh good lord, I didn't realize I"ve overused it already. I'll have to think of something new and better, that phrase is done.

And I agree, that you are one anal bastard.

[stubbsy]

And I agree, that you are one anal bastard.

Thank you