Blue hour Luzern
365(3)_18
18/1/2012
Out of my comfort zone, again.
Since I feel my inspiration left for the moon, I can at least practice things I have never tried before, right?!
I'm new to a tripod. I find it makes me stationary. I'll have to get used to scout way before for a good composition, change lenses, change POV and when happy, then set it on a tripod. Lesson learned.
I spend way to much time trying to make sense of the swan and duck trails (2nd post in comments) with the Chapel bridge all the while ignoring the shot I really liked that was behind my back. When I got there, the sky was already inky blue which meant PSing it back to what it was supposed to be. How annoying. Another lesson learned.
Since night shots are notoriously hard to correct without damaging the pixels and I was prepared for trouble (although I imagined WB issues which in the end were not a problem) I did two things - I shot on ISO 50 as well as took a shot of just the sky. Before and after and how editing can be done in Ps avoiding overt loss of quality can be found on blog.
The other 3 blue shots below are as blue as they were :-)
I could have just kept quiet LOL
But I prefer to be honest.
No, I do not photoshop all my shots :-D
but when I do... I go to town LOL
Blue hour Luzern
365(3)_18
18/1/2012
Out of my comfort zone, again.
Since I feel my inspiration left for the moon, I can at least practice things I have never tried before, right?!
I'm new to a tripod. I find it makes me stationary. I'll have to get used to scout way before for a good composition, change lenses, change POV and when happy, then set it on a tripod. Lesson learned.
I spend way to much time trying to make sense of the swan and duck trails (2nd post in comments) with the Chapel bridge all the while ignoring the shot I really liked that was behind my back. When I got there, the sky was already inky blue which meant PSing it back to what it was supposed to be. How annoying. Another lesson learned.
Since night shots are notoriously hard to correct without damaging the pixels and I was prepared for trouble (although I imagined WB issues which in the end were not a problem) I did two things - I shot on ISO 50 as well as took a shot of just the sky. Before and after and how editing can be done in Ps avoiding overt loss of quality can be found on blog.
The other 3 blue shots below are as blue as they were :-)
I could have just kept quiet LOL
But I prefer to be honest.
No, I do not photoshop all my shots :-D
but when I do... I go to town LOL