Nighttime HDR with 60D

Hi.

First post here on dpreview.

Been reading these forums for the last six months now and decided it was time to join

I've owned the Canon 60D for about two months now, and I must really say that I enjoy every bit of using this camera.

I used to have a Canon 350D when that came out, but unfortunately I was dumb enough to sell it and had since been shooting with semi-compact cameras.

For a loooooong time I've been wanting to get back into dSLR photography, and I finally took the step and bought some new gear.

Due to a lot of work lately I haven't been able to go out and photograph as often as I would like to, but I've been out a couple of times and would like it if you guys would be so kind as to c & c some of my pictures?
These are all taken with the SamYang 8mm fish-eye.
The images are HDR renders with after adjustments made in Lightroom 3.

The first one is a shot from Copenhagen Central station:





The second one is also from Copenhagen Central station, showing the escalators going down/up to/from the train platforms:





The last one is a shot towards the planetarium in Copenhagen:

Hey really good job on the pics. I'm really not a big fan of HDR. It always looks a bit fake to me, but these are great. Love the first especially. It's composed well, love the wide angle and the B&W goes a long way to making it more natural. When I saw it I immediately thought of an HR Giger painting!

That first one looks like an illustration more than a photo - but it works!

Really like the 1st image, very striking.

2nd & 3rd I like, the colours epecially, but not sure on the amount of curvature on the last image, I think it'd look more appealing (to me at least) if it was more level.

Really nice shots! I like all of them.

Post more like this!
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Randy

I really like the first one also. what lens were you using?

Forget the question, I don't know how I missed it. Look's like a fun lens to experiment with!

Wow, thank you so much for all the nice comments!

The Samyang is a fun little lens to use and it's really a steal at that price.

Of course the optical quality ain't on par with L series lenses but still it's able to produce some nice images.

All of these photos were taken on the very first day of me owning the lens, and I really wanted to try out the extortion of the lens when I took the photo of the planetarium.

I will probably go out tonight and take some more photos as I don't have to work for a couple of days - I'll make sure and post some of them afterwards!

Once again thank you for all the nice comments As I'm just starting out with photography again it's nice to hear some feedback on my photographs.

Stay tuned for more!

Kasper