More night shots

[Seb]

Tell me what ya think?

Wow, you have some remarkable flash work here.

I honnestly don't care for the first one, the subject by itself doesn't hold my interest. I think that I understand how you wanted to emphasis depth by focusing on the "fence" but there are too many elements everywhere that distract me. Also, the fact that the fence directly lead the eyes to a blown out area of artificial lighting is an issue for me.

I like your second one. I would have prefered the binoculars to be less centered and the fact that a tree is directly behing them leads to a strange effect. Kinda like the branchs were growing out of the binoculars. On the other hand the textures are great and the colors are superb.

The third one is my favorite. This one is quite striking. Great composition and great colors. The eagle stand out so much that it almost seems too good to be true.

I'd be curious to know how you have set your flash to get these results.

Seb

[xsport652]

lol to tell you the truth there was no flash used. All of this is in a park overlooking New York City and even though the park was closed it has big overhead lights on until about 10:00. I just used what I had to work with. As you can see I dont have that much control with my point and shoot and am dying to get a d70 soon as my friend just got a canon 20d.

1. shutter 15 sec.
ISO 100
F-stop 3.2

2. shutter 15 sec.
ISO 200
F-stop 2.8

3. shutter 15 sec.
ISO 80
F-stop 3.4

[srobb]

You can take some pride in these shots with them being available light, xsport. All three are well done.

The first does the least for me for the reasons already stated. Number 2 is nice and the tree limbs don't really bother me that much. Of course that is probably just my weird sense of imagination at work. ;)

Number 3 is simply great. A splendid job of using the available light to really highlight the sculpture and not worry about losing detail in the bg. This is one I would definitley think about for a print and frame.

[xsport652]

thank you all