skypointer2000
Red Eye Shift
Actually I prefer to do night photography from dark sites, but unfortunately this is not always possible.
People living in or near the big cities just do not realize what great skies they miss. A recent study (advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1600377.full) shows that 99% of the Europeans and US-Americans live under light polluted skies. 30% of the people living in my home country, Switzerland, cannot see the Milky Way - and we are still lucky. The European average is 60% and in the US this figure mounts to shocking 80%!!!
Recently, I flew into London for an overnight. Of course the London area is horribly light polluted, but I decided to take along my photo equipment anyway.
As images of starry skies were out of question, I decided to do long exposures of some famous landmarks.
I havn't got much experience with this kind of photography, but I thought closing the aperture and shooting low ISO for once might be the best course of action.
I am quite happy with the result - except for the horribly blank sky!
As always, all your comments and faves are highly appreciated.
Update 20.12.2016
I couldn't stand the dull black skies any longer. Therefore, I reprocessed the image with a (purely fake) blueish sky. I hope you do not mind...
Red Eye Shift
Actually I prefer to do night photography from dark sites, but unfortunately this is not always possible.
People living in or near the big cities just do not realize what great skies they miss. A recent study (advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1600377.full) shows that 99% of the Europeans and US-Americans live under light polluted skies. 30% of the people living in my home country, Switzerland, cannot see the Milky Way - and we are still lucky. The European average is 60% and in the US this figure mounts to shocking 80%!!!
Recently, I flew into London for an overnight. Of course the London area is horribly light polluted, but I decided to take along my photo equipment anyway.
As images of starry skies were out of question, I decided to do long exposures of some famous landmarks.
I havn't got much experience with this kind of photography, but I thought closing the aperture and shooting low ISO for once might be the best course of action.
I am quite happy with the result - except for the horribly blank sky!
As always, all your comments and faves are highly appreciated.
Update 20.12.2016
I couldn't stand the dull black skies any longer. Therefore, I reprocessed the image with a (purely fake) blueish sky. I hope you do not mind...