In the dark river reflection

[Canyon Hiker]

I shot these last night on the North Fork of the American River. I had to play around with different lighting tools and camera settings to get any shot at all. 4-20 million candlepower floodlights placed 1/4 mile behind me, a slight glimmer form the 1/4 moon, and a combination of the eight lights mounted on my jeep is what I used for lighting. The fog was rolling into the canyon as I was setting up and made for a little more challenging capture.I was looking for a soft focus night shot. But as usual I'm not happy with them..another re-shoot..No complaints..I don't mind at all What do ya think?

Thanks for any advice or critiques..







Darin

[danpics]

some cool colors, but it looks a bit too over-processed to me. it may also just be how the uploaded versions are showing up on my computer but they seem a bit too blurry in areas that shouldn't be.

[Canyon Hiker]

some cool colors, but it looks a bit too over-processed to me. it may also just be how the uploaded versions are showing up on my computer but they seem a bit too blurry in areas that shouldn't be.

Its not your computer.. Trying to get focus correct was killing me with the no/low light. When I sharpen them in processing..it just doesn't look right..Back to the drawing boards Thanks for the comment..

Darin

[Shebang]

I like #1. I find your composition pleasing. Though the color may be over-saturated, I have a tendency to favor that in varying degrees. The one thing that does bother me about #1 is the ray/flare things somewhat, but I would even like that if there were just more detail in that big, blah hill.

[Anbesol]

I agree they are soft, the first one is my favorite by a lot, enough going on to keep my eye, great composition and angling. I'm not sure if the first is soft or if thats just strong image grain. Try ISO 200-400 with a tripod.

*Edit - scratch that, I checked exif - ISO 800 at THIRTY SIX SECONDS! Woah, must have been about pitch black there, the image grain must be long exposure grain then. Considering that, I think the only thing you could possibly do to do any better would be to get a lens with a much wider aperture, that shot at 17mm, get something around 20mm at f/2 or faster. Can't really critique on this considering you did everything you could possibly do for the shot.

[caleb]

Have you tried to just set your widest lenses to an aperture that will allow hyperfocal focusing and eyeball the distance to place your foreground? might make things easier