S7000 night shots (pics)

AndreLi · Feb 20, 2004

Hello everybody,

lately there've been some threads asking for S7000 nightshots. I finally decided to post a link to some of mine. I started a new thread since I'm a little keen on some comments too.

The pics show the inner city of Dresden (Germany) - variously illuminated at night. All shots done using full manual mode, auto-bracketing, tripod, 2sec selftimer. Heavy postprocessing was needed though (color corection, cropping, downsizing for the web). I've still got much to learn.
So here it goes:
http://andreasliva.de/img/show/ddnight

kind regards
andreas liva

Antonio_2 · Feb 20, 2004

Andreas,

the city is beautiful, thank you for showing it, but there is something wrong in the pics, architecture lines appear as broken/corrupted and I can see some noise. You should use soft setting in the S7000 and then use a good software to downsample and sharpen if necessary. I suggest also to choose a larger size for your pictures, between 800x600 and 1024x768, a lot of nice details will come out.

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AndreLi said:
Hello everybody,
lately there've been some threads asking for S7000 nightshots. I
finally decided to post a link to some of mine. I started a new
thread since I'm a little keen on some comments too.
The pics show the inner city of Dresden (Germany) - variously
illuminated at night. All shots done using full manual mode,
auto-bracketing, tripod, 2sec selftimer. Heavy postprocessing was
needed though (color corection, cropping, downsizing for the web).
I've still got much to learn.
So here it goes:
http://andreasliva.de/img/show/ddnight

kind regards
andreas liva

AndreLi · Feb 20, 2004

Antonio_2 said:
Andreas,
the city is beautiful, thank you for showing it, but there is
something wrong in the pics, architecture lines appear as
broken/corrupted and I can see some noise. You should use soft
setting in the S7000 and then use a good software to downsample and
sharpen if necessary. I suggest also to choose a larger size for
your pictures, between 800x600 and 1024x768, a lot of nice details
will come out.

--
Antonio

Thanks Antonio,

yes I used soft setting on the S7000. Nevertheless my results were not very appealing straight from the camera (no doubt due to a lack of experience on my side).

I've picked up your advice and substituted the pics by slightly larger and less compressed versions. Hopefully it's not causing too much inconvenience for dial-up users.
andreas

dtran · Feb 20, 2004

They are beautiful, I like them all.

dtran

AndreLi said:
Hello everybody,
lately there've been some threads asking for S7000 nightshots. I
finally decided to post a link to some of mine. I started a new
thread since I'm a little keen on some comments too.
The pics show the inner city of Dresden (Germany) - variously
illuminated at night. All shots done using full manual mode,
auto-bracketing, tripod, 2sec selftimer. Heavy postprocessing was
needed though (color corection, cropping, downsizing for the web).
I've still got much to learn.
So here it goes:
http://andreasliva.de/img/show/ddnight

kind regards
andreas liva

morris · Feb 20, 2004

Yes night photos can be very rewarding and you are off to a fine start Andre. Try brackiting your photos and check the histogram as your highlights are just a bit over exposed.

Morris

AndreLi said:
Hello everybody,
lately there've been some threads asking for S7000 nightshots. I
finally decided to post a link to some of mine. I started a new
thread since I'm a little keen on some comments too.
The pics show the inner city of Dresden (Germany) - variously
illuminated at night. All shots done using full manual mode,
auto-bracketing, tripod, 2sec selftimer. Heavy postprocessing was
needed though (color corection, cropping, downsizing for the web).
I've still got much to learn.
So here it goes:
http://andreasliva.de/img/show/ddnight

kind regards
andreas liva

AndreLi · Feb 20, 2004

dtran said:
They are beautiful, I like them all.

dtran

thanks a lot, dtran
andreas

AndreLi · Feb 20, 2004

morris said:
Yes night photos can be very rewarding and you are off to a fine
start Andre. Try brackiting your photos and check the histogram as
your highlights are just a bit over exposed.

Morris

thank you, Morris. I very much appreciate your comment. I did bracketing (1/3 steps - perhaps it would have had better effect with 1/2 step?) and picked the most well exposed for postprocessing. With the histogram I still need some practice (though I've got the basic understanding).
andreas

W.D.John · Feb 20, 2004

Hello Andreas,

nice photos. I wonder how you focussed. Even if I try to make a shot in twilight I encounter heavy problems in focussing (no meter for manual f and auto-f does not work).

P.S.:
Melde mich noch, danke für die Mail !
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AndreLi · Feb 21, 2004

W.D.John said:
Hello Andreas,

nice photos. I wonder how you focussed. Even if I try to make a
shot in twilight I encounter heavy problems in focussing (no meter
for manual f and auto-f does not work).

thanks W.D. Focusing wasn't very easy indeed. I used this multi-segment thing (where you can switch the focusing point when shooting from a tripod). This way you can try focusing at various points of similiar distance without moving the cam. AF did quite well this way. The last shot (the fairy lights?? Lichterketten am Karstadt) though, had to be focused manually - it's fiddly since you never know which distance is actually in focus, even worse that I simply can't memorize which way to turn the focus ring.
kind regards
andreas

W.D.John · Feb 21, 2004

AndreLi said:
you never know which distance is actually in focus, even worse that
I simply can't memorize which way to turn the focus ring.

... I know the problem myself ;-)
A meter in the LCD would be nice and not so difficult to implement.

--
Greetings from the shores of the Baltic Sea

W.D.John
-------------------------------------------------------
Bildung braucht Zukunft braucht Bildung

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