Orbital said:Wow! Very nice!
What camera did you use?
mobbarley said:you should adjust the wb, then kill off thoes yellow lights.
SkyAce2004 said:Nikon D40 with the kit lense
Kinks said:^^ I disagree. too much cyan in the sky, the pier looks bland and lifeless. there is also colour bleeding in the middle light reflection on the water, see how it is white and then cyan and then orange? blech.
here's my attempt. pulled a lot of yellow out until the sky in the top right looked a proper inky black. then fiddled the other channels until the rest of the sky looked reasonably realistic (the other correction attempts are too purple, too cyan/blue, WAY too purple, and the one with the lens flare looks fabulous). tried to retain as much yellow on the pier as necessary to make it look good, because after all they were sodium lamps they are SUPPOSED to be yellow. mine still has a slightly purple tinge to the sky but I got bored fiddling with the sliders.
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Flipdriver80 said:yes another one just like me. i was hoping it was! great shot! i love my camera too. fuck the naysayers, the D40 is a good camera.
BTW the origional is so much better, the lights are yellow, leave them yellow. at least it doesn't look fake. white lights belong in aparking lot, not on a pier...
IntheWorks said:first....
why on earth are you shooting night shots at ISO 400? Kick it down to 100 and use a tripod.
2nd
did you shoot this in RAW, or JPG? If you shot in RAW, change your WB to Tuengsten. If you shot in RAW, you should have set your WB to tuengsten instead of auto.
3rd.
the bridge is to centered. Move it to the upper, or lower 1/3rd of the screen.
4th.
f/3.5 is a little to low, a higher fstop would have made the light from the lights "crisper" and given them a star effect rather than blobs. shoot for around f/5.6 or higher.