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Mon, Aug 01, 2005

Night Shots

And speaking of photography: Chapter 2 in the story of my camera exploration, this time playing for the first time with night photography (in the park next to our apartment). I picked up a light-weight tripod when I got the camera, but hadn't yet played with it much. Nothing particularly inspired came of the outing, although I did especially like how the flag turned out.

Flag at night
Park path at night
Park pond and gazebo at night

I was surprised at how easy it was to recover the true colors out of the pictures, despite the low light. After consider, though, I find I do prefer the mood of the pictures as they came off the camera (except for the flag, where the originally simply looked muddy).

Park path at night, retouched
Park pond and gazebo at night, retouched

I may play with altering the color balance only in the sky, as the red of the sky is very striking, especially in the first scene, but is almost entirely lost in the un-retouched version.

Other's Thoughts

From the mind of ciyt zen cane - Sat, Sep 16, 2006

I do like the flag, have you tried cropping it to focus on that portion fo the picture?

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