Archive for The Motor Forum talking cars since 2006          The Motor Forum Forum Index -> Photography Matt Underneath the Bridge: Cornish Side Had a nice shoot tonight on the Cornwall side of the Tamar River. Better for photography that side. The rest are here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cslmotor/sets/72157612986607765/ "him" Re: Underneath the Bridge: Cornish Side Matt wrote: Had a nice shoot tonight on the Cornwall side of the Tamar River. Better that side. Fixed it for you...   Great shot, how long was the exposure on that? kraftwerk I do love a bridge. Just like Buzz Killington. Big TC Lovely photos Matt. I love the atmospheric 'feel' to them. admin Re: Underneath the Bridge: Cornish Side "him" wrote: Matt wrote: Had a nice shoot tonight on the Cornwall side of the Tamar River. Better that side. Fixed it for you...   Great shot, how long was the exposure on that? 20 seconds at F6.3. Star69 Great photos Matt. I love the metallic sheen - was that due to the length of exposure or have you enhanced the picture? And if so - tips please? All the night photos I took under street lighting just came out orange. Matt These were shot in RAW and enhanced with Apple Aperture's wide range of adjustments. The exposure lengths do allow much softer lighting of the clouds, but glare is an issue off of lamps. As an example of RAW's power, I was experimenting with custom white balance and took a reading from a white image and ended up with this original. I was able to adjust it into the second version. As for tips, the biggest is to use RAW. It's initially a pain as you need to adjust all images, but the final effect is what you want the image to look like to a larger extent than letting the camera's JPEG processor do it all. Elements 6 has a very good starter RAW editor and at first, when Aperture was running very slow on my computer, I went back to it. For your own viewing, save any adjustments as TIFF files with no compression, as this is a universally readable form of post-RAW imaging without the destructive JPEG lossy compression. You'd have to use PNG (similar to TIFF) or JPEG for here, though. Big TC I can't shoot in RAW, as my laptop doesn't have enough memory to cope with any major adjustments of the files before they're opened. I need to upgrade my computing power before I update my camera to a full D-DSL.... DetmoldDick Great shots but you may consider cropping your shadow in the 2nd pair.        The Motor Forum Forum Index -> Photography Page 1 of 1