Night Shots

[Patrick]

Yesterday Sunday 25th July I went to a workshop given by Leigh Preston.
We spent 3-4 hours doing critiques on each others work. After a meal off we went into the Jewelry quarter of Birmingham to do some night photography, a specialty of Leigh's.
Made some images I probably wouldn't have made, he was encouraging us to look for the less obvious city scape night shots.
Here are a few of the shots I made.

Patrick

[Bear]

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Nice use of B&W lovely atmospheric shots

[Mowgli]

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I like pic no 3 looks very effective in b/w
Mowgli

[Ian]

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They are very inspirational - I certainly feel like having a go now!

Ian

[Patrick]

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They are very inspirational - I certainly feel like having a go now!

Ian

Well thank you, the praise is very nice and appreciated, but if anyone has criticism, please I would very much like your comments.
Perhaps I should have posted them for critique.

Patrick

[Kurt]

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Very good shots. Nice tonal range and good blacks. My favourite is the third shot, although I think you should tone down the road sign and get rid of the slight lens flare on the right. Also in the second shot the buildings appear to be leaning backwards slightly, although that might be me or my computer!

[Patrick]

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Very good shots. Nice tonal range and good blacks. My favourite is the third shot, although I think you should tone down the road sign and get rid of the slight lens flare on the right. Also in the second shot the buildings appear to be leaning backwards slightly, although that might be me or my computer!

Yes I know the second shot has the appearance of leaning back, that's the effect of the 10mm lens used (converging verticals very common with wide angle lenses) to make the shot. I had to make the decision which upright to put true, I may have chosen the wrong one. I could of course correct in Photoshop with the perspective control, may yet do that.
The Third one I actually like the lens flare, in fact I should like it a bit stronger. I toyed with the idea if darkening down the road sign, but decided against it, I felt it balanced the view. That said it may be a little to light.

Your view point much appreciated.

Patrick

[Ian]

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I tend to use a central vertical reference to straighten. It seems more natural that way.

Ian

[Stephen]

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It would be interesting to see if the new lens correction tools in LR3 could sort this out without having to crop too much. Cropping seems to be the trade off usually

[Stephen]

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Oh and I should add, great pictures Patrick, I like these a lot. You did well not to get the light trails from traffic too.

[Patrick]

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It would be interesting to see if the new lens correction tools in LR3 could sort this out without having to crop too much. Cropping seems to be the trade off usually

Hi Stephen
Its all a trade off one way or another.
Here is a version with the perspective corrected, the distortion on the windows is now increased but I think acceptable.

Patrick

[Patrick]

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Oh and I should add, great pictures Patrick, I like these a lot. You did well not to get the light trails from traffic too.

Others in the group were looking for light trails, I wanted to avoid them.

Patrick

[Patrick]

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Others in the group were looking for light trails, I wanted to avoid them.

Patrick

I must post this apology to Leigh Preston I wrote his name at the beginning of this thread as Lee.
Here is his full title, Leigh Preston FRPS, EFIAP, MPAGB, FIPF.
The letters are all photographic honours.

Patrick

[Ian]

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I must post this apology to Leigh Preston I wrote his name at the beginning of this thread as Lee.
Here is his full title, Leigh Preston FRPS, EFIAP, MPAGB, FIPF.
The letters are all photographic honours.

Patrick

I've corrected the name, Patrick

Ian

[kennykodak]

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Patrick,
great images...