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Took my 300D on a business trip to Belgium. After work, I skipped dinner and went to Gent downtown. Beautiful old city! Look for yourself:



This shot was taken with
300D
18-55 kit lens
parameter 2
ISO100, f8, 4sec (set Av f8, exposure -1)
WB tungsten (I didn't want to make the yelowish sodium light white)
tripod, RC1 IR remote control

The picture is straight out of the camera, no postprocessing at all,
only resized for the web.
What do you think?

--Jens--
 
Jens, Bravo, beautiful shot!
Butzl said:
Took my 300D on a business trip to Belgium. After work, I skipped
dinner and went to Gent downtown. Beautiful old city! Look for
yourself:



This shot was taken with
300D
18-55 kit lens
parameter 2
ISO100, f8, 4sec (set Av f8, exposure -1)
WB tungsten (I didn't want to make the yelowish sodium light white)
tripod, RC1 IR remote control

The picture is straight out of the camera, no postprocessing at all,
only resized for the web.
What do you think?

--Jens--
Click to expand...
--
Stanzman
 
Stan Richard said:
Butzl said:
Took my 300D on a business trip to Belgium. After work, I skipped
dinner and went to Gent downtown. Beautiful old city! Look for
yourself:



This shot was taken with
300D
18-55 kit lens
parameter 2
ISO100, f8, 4sec (set Av f8, exposure -1)
WB tungsten (I didn't want to make the yelowish sodium light white)
tripod, RC1 IR remote control

The picture is straight out of the camera, no postprocessing at all,
only resized for the web.
What do you think?

--Jens--
Click to expand...
--
Stanzman
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fredyr Well worth the thoughtful approach.
 
First, I must say this is a gorgeous composition - the mirror-like canal reflections are superb.

I also like the -1 exposure adjust which kept the night-time feel in your image, but the sodium lights colors are a bit too much for my taste. I also wanted to see more shadow detail. Since I've been learning about color balance & shadow/highlight adjustments recently, I took the liberty of tweaking it a bit in Photoshop:



Do you think this is an improvement? I'd like feedback myself since I'm trying to avoid "over-correcting" my own shots. Here's your original again:



One last thing - I'd surely love a higher resolution image to play with!
  • Zapped
More random EOS300D pics -
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?show_all=1&start=1&id=4289085949
 
Butzl said:
Took my 300D on a business trip to Belgium. After work, I skipped
dinner and went to Gent downtown. Beautiful old city! Look for
yourself:



This shot was taken with
300D
18-55 kit lens
parameter 2
ISO100, f8, 4sec (set Av f8, exposure -1)
WB tungsten (I didn't want to make the yelowish sodium light white)
tripod, RC1 IR remote control

The picture is straight out of the camera, no postprocessing at all,
only resized for the web.
What do you think?

--Jens--
Click to expand...
--
ZoomBoy



'All pixels aren't created equal!'
 
I work in Ghent, was born in Ghent, I'm a very hefty AA Gent supported (soccer team)...but live in Oudenaarde (20mins away from there) because my wife is born here :)

beautiful town indeed!
 
Beautiful shot indeed! Nice job.
Butzl said:
Took my 300D on a business trip to Belgium. After work, I skipped
dinner and went to Gent downtown. Beautiful old city! Look for
yourself:



This shot was taken with
300D
18-55 kit lens
parameter 2
ISO100, f8, 4sec (set Av f8, exposure -1)
WB tungsten (I didn't want to make the yelowish sodium light white)
tripod, RC1 IR remote control

The picture is straight out of the camera, no postprocessing at all,
only resized for the web.
What do you think?

--Jens--
Click to expand...
 
Hans,

You are very lucky. One of the most beutifull cities in the world, in my view. On Brugges equals it !!!
 
Congrats on an excellent shot.

This would've been a great opportunity to shoot RAW - the ability to decide the WB after the fact is huge. I like the yellow cast of the incandescents, but I'd also be intrigued to see what a "wrong" WB would yield - Fluorescent balance can do really cool things to non-fluorescent light sources.

Also the exposure lattitude gained by RAW is always a big help in challenging exposure situations such as this. That being said, I think you did an excellent job with the exposure straight from the camera.

It might also be interesting to get a tighter shot of just one of the building facades with its reflection in the water.

Anyway, great work!
 
Hi,

Wonderful shot, I love the refelection in the water... sweet.

Anthony
http://www.congiano.com/gallery.htm
Butzl said:
Took my 300D on a business trip to Belgium. After work, I skipped
dinner and went to Gent downtown. Beautiful old city! Look for
yourself:



This shot was taken with
300D
18-55 kit lens
parameter 2
ISO100, f8, 4sec (set Av f8, exposure -1)
WB tungsten (I didn't want to make the yelowish sodium light white)
tripod, RC1 IR remote control

The picture is straight out of the camera, no postprocessing at all,
only resized for the web.
What do you think?

--Jens--
Click to expand...
 
Zapped said:
...Do you think this is an improvement? I'd like feedback myself since
I'm trying to avoid "over-correcting" my own shots. Here's your
original again:
Click to expand...
Thanks a lot for your suggestion! Your postprocessing goes definitively into the right direction.

You know that sodium light puts a yellowish cast over the whole city, just here and there interrupted by a mercury lamp. The human eye is very well capable of adapting to light conditions like tungsten and after a while you accept a white object being white allthough it's actually orange. But with sodium light even the eye cannot be fooled and perceives everything as yellow. This overall cast should somewhat remain but the original picture seems kind of dullish yellow and your postprocessed version looks much richer, more vivid and pleases the eye.

However, for my personal taste it's a tiny bit too much. But if one would think of making a postcard out of it, people would definitively prefer your version.
Thanks again for your work and suggestion!
--Jens--
 
Especially under mixed light source conditions the RAW file gives a much wider room for adjustments. Thanks for your suggestion!
banzai said:
Congrats on an excellent shot.

This would've been a great opportunity to shoot RAW - the ability
to decide the WB after the fact is huge. I like the yellow cast of
the incandescents, but I'd also be intrigued to see what a "wrong"
WB would yield - Fluorescent balance can do really cool things to
non-fluorescent light sources.

Also the exposure lattitude gained by RAW is always a big help in
challenging exposure situations such as this. That being said, I
think you did an excellent job with the exposure straight from the
camera.

It might also be interesting to get a tighter shot of just one of
the building facades with its reflection in the water.

Anyway, great work!
Click to expand...
 
I think it's lovely! Thanks for telling us your settings, especially the white balance selection. Beautiful shot.

Dawn
Butzl said:
Took my 300D on a business trip to Belgium. After work, I skipped
dinner and went to Gent downtown. Beautiful old city! Look for
yourself:



This shot was taken with
300D
18-55 kit lens
parameter 2
ISO100, f8, 4sec (set Av f8, exposure -1)
WB tungsten (I didn't want to make the yelowish sodium light white)
tripod, RC1 IR remote control

The picture is straight out of the camera, no postprocessing at all,
only resized for the web.
What do you think?

--Jens--
Click to expand...
--
***********
Dawn
http://www.playapixie.org
 
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