One night photography

[PhilF]

After doing a gig.. I was on a parking structure waiting for my wife. I decided to bust out the cam and tripod and do some night shooting. LOL






....back to basics.

[Anbesol]

They are all a little yellow. The range looks somewhat skewed, slightly, particularly on the trees, might just be the night lighting. Really sharp, cool compositions. Nice work.

[PhilF]

They are all a little yellow. The range looks somewhat skewed, slightly, particularly on the trees, might just be the night lighting. Really sharp, cool compositions. Nice work.

thanks.
yellow is intentional.
looks skewed because I was shooting at 17mm... barrel distortion.

[Anbesol]

I'm sorry I didn't mean the distortion, I meant the "range looks skewed", but, I'm pretty sure that's just the light near the tree and nothing doing for it.

[LeeIs]

2 & 3 are my favorites here.

The entire series' white balance is off. It needs more blue to balance it out.

The good about 2 & 3 is the perspective. 2, lower vantage point looking up. and 3 higher vantage point looking down.

#1 is just hanging in the air. imo, hanging in the middle too much. It's in the middle (vertically looking at middle with no clear subject.) same with 4

Sometimes when there's no clear subject and you're shooting from the position of shot 1 at least the foreground is pulling the viewer down and anchoring the shot.

#1 & 4 lack the anchoring effect and kind of leave me with a floating feeling.

[PhilF]

2 & 3 are my favorites here.

The entire series' white balance is off. It needs more blue to balance it out.

The good about 2 & 3 is the perspective. 2, lower vantage point looking up. and 3 higher vantage point looking down.

#1 is just hanging in the air. imo, hanging in the middle too much. It's in the middle (vertically looking at middle with no clear subject.) same with 4

Sometimes when there's no clear subject and you're shooting from the position of shot 1 at least the foreground is pulling the viewer down and anchoring the shot.

#1 & 4 lack the anchoring effect and kind of leave me with a floating feeling.

thanks.
white balance is intentionally in the warm side... artistic call... for me ...blue kills the intensity and "oomph" of the lights around

subject...what made me grabbed my gear was the lights... so I think it clearly shows it.

I think reason why you don't have the anchoring feeling is you don't see much of the ground especially the tree in the foreground....and the location of the tree is dead center in the image.... plus it was shot in the 3rd floor of a parking bldg.

[gahspidy]

I agree about the white balance being "off" and while its subjective and was your intentional call on that, I'm not crazy bout it.

I think these are suffering from lens distortion that should be corrected. i'm not crazy about the compositions where the trees are all cut off just at the bottom.

the only other thing for me is that these scenes themselves are not all that interesting.

I do admire that you would get out your gear again after a working shoot and capture what caught your eye. I think many of us get lazy in that regard, and i know I'm falling into that category.

[PhilF]

I agree about the white balance being "off" and while its subjective and was your intentional call on that, I'm not crazy bout it.

I think these are suffering from lens distortion that should be corrected. i'm not crazy about the compositions where the trees are all cut off just at the bottom.

the only other thing for me is that these scenes themselves are not all that interesting.

I do admire that you would get out your gear again after a working shoot and capture what caught your eye. I think many of us get lazy in that regard, and i know I'm falling into that category.

thanks for the comment Gary.
I always see beauty in all the little and normal things.
Question thouhg... how do you correct lens distortion..... I shoot people normally so when I get distortion I throw the image away. But for this type of photography... is it still fixable?

[gahspidy]

thanks for the comment Gary.
I always see beauty in all the little and normal things.
Question thouhg... how do you correct lens distortion..... I shoot people normally so when I get distortion I throw the image away. But for this type of photography... is it still fixable?

Phil, there are a number of ways to tackle distortion and everyone has their prference, but simply, and probably the most precise way is to go into Photoshop and select Filters>distort>lens correction. Then you can remove the wide angle distortion and even adjust your shooting perspective a bit. Only problem is that you will lose some of the image as it needs to crop in further to make the adjustments. but worht a try.
another way is selecting the entire frame with your rectangular selection tool and then use Edit>Transform>perspective or skew or some other like distort, etc can be given a try.

[PhilF]

Phil, there are a number of ways to tackle distortion and everyone has their prference, but simply, and probably the most precise way is to go into Photoshop and select Filters>distort>lens correction. Then you can remove the wide angle distortion and even adjust your shooting perspective a bit. Only problem is that you will lose some of the image as it needs to crop in further to make the adjustments. but worht a try.
another way is selecting the entire frame with your rectangular selection tool and then use Edit>Transform>perspective or skew or some other like distort, etc can be given a try.

thanks... I'll try that.