I like this shot, what bugs me, (and this isn't a criticism of you), is the way that digital cameras treat night skies. They always look like brownish smog to me. Correcting them to get something like neutral grays and blacks often kills the mood.
Marcus A. Hofmann wrote: > Hi. > > OK, I was sure I had set up Apple Mail to only send plaintext > messages, but as it turns out, I had not. So maybe this is going to > work now. I'll give it a try. > > I've been experimenting a little with available light pictures at > night without a tripod. Mainly because I don't have a tripod and > because I know that if I did I'd never bring it anywhere. I got the > best results kneeling, leaning against something solid, pressing the > arms tight against my body, breathing out and then holding my breath - > like shooting a rifle. This is the best I managed to come up with > (K200D with 40mm Ltd., handheld at 1 second, f/2.8, ISO 400, slightly > tweaked in LR). > > http://tinyurl.com/2hz8hy > http://www.ntony.net/engine/image/medium/b28300c6d7a85f39ed7e5d6672657040.jpg > > You can see a larger version by substituting "large" for "medium" in > the url. Comments, suggestions and tips on how to improve this are > very welcome. > > Oh, by the way, this is the harbour in Hoorn at night, picture taken > from our ship, about four weeks ago. It was snowing at the time. Hoorn > is a small town in North Holland where the first sailor to sail around > Cape Hoorn and actually survive came from, so Cape Hoorn is named > after this beautiful little town. > > > Thanks, > Marcus > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
