London

Having read up what ISO and f-stop values actually mean, I went for a couple of night time shots. Again, I didn't have a tripod as I had a meeting in Canary Wharf and could barely bring the camera. As usual, C&C welcome and appreciated.




(shot this one for the photo challenge)





I was trying to keep the photos 'soft' so I was focusing on the buildings with the aim of blurring the clouds somewhat. Does it work?

5uspect

Very nice set, I like them all.
If these are hand held I guess the exposure time is around 1/100 ish?
You'll only get a nice blur in the clouds in exposures > 5 -30 seconds, on a rock solid tripod.

Also at this distance both the buildings and clouds are at infinity so you won't be able to get a boket like that.

I had exposure at around 1/400 as I had nothing to lean against and I wanted the silhouette effect.

I want to go back to Canary Wharf with a tripod and some more time. Essentially, its the 'oil painting' look I am going for (if that makes sense?).

melekalikimaka

excellent stuff, reall nice work

5uspect

Try getting some ND filters and a tripod. Then you can get the streaky long exposure effect. You won't blur the sky with the method you used.

That said I think I prefer these shots to a long exposure!

Cheers guys.
I'm back in Dublin in a few weeks and I want to finally some decent pics of around CHQ. (I've been trying for a year now!)

powerzjim

nice work

Burnt

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I want to go back to Canary Wharf with a tripod and some more time.

Canary Wharf is one of the spots in London your almost guaranteed to get
hassle for taking photographs; in particular with a tripod. The security are a
bit over zealous to say the least down there. However as an amteur you are
apparently free to photograph the estate. Please refer to this flickr discussion.

I don't mean to put you of going, it's more that fore warned is fore armed.

charybdis

These are excellent.

Composition is much bolder than your earlier Hong Kong cityscapes.