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First photo taken with my new NX300M

Started Feb 2, 2015 | Photos thread
Ramon94
Ramon94 Regular Member • Posts: 125
Here's my tips, hope it's good though!^^
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AxelHawk wrote:

Just bought a Samsung NX300M, my first interchangeable lens camera. This is my first long exposure pic taken with my new camera. I bought it to learn more about photography. for now I only have the kit lens, but 20mm pancake is on the way.

Cropped and ligthly edited on lightroom. Forgot to get the raw on this -_-

Hope you like it. Tips to improve are very apreciated.

Congratulations on your new camera! Im quite new myself but I can try to give you my tips, it might not be the right kind of tips but it can help
So this is a landscape, I think it could benefit from and aperture between F8-11 (atleast there I think our lens (18-55mm) performs the best for this shot, you'll get a more pleasent starburst effect on the streetlights!
Given that the forest/woods whatever you want to call it is dominant in the picture, it could be good to have it properly exposed, it would be more to legit to underexpose if you were going with a silhouett type of shot if you want to underexpose (which works great with backlightning)
Here's my editing on you picture, it might not suit your or anyone else's preference but hey!

Given that this is a JPEG we still got decent data from the shadows, there is a lot of potential in this shot and a RAW would work excellent, like you mentioned :)!
Keep up the good work, I hope this helped^^!

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