PIE & KPE at night

[kohanson]

Saw Bryaan took the beautiful night shots of PIE and I decided to give it a try last week and here are the results. C&C are welcome, thanks.

1. settings: f11, ISO 100, 13s, 15mm.

2. settings: f11, ISO 100, 10s, 15mm.

3. settings: f16, ISO 100, 25s, 15mm.

 

[altezza87]

nice photos.

its actually quite frightening for drivers below as you will look like a tp trying to catch speeders. just saying, hehe.

 

[kohanson]

nice photos.

its actually quite frightening for drivers below as you will look like a tp trying to catch speeders. just saying, hehe.

thanks.. :bsmilie: actually one van driver stick out his head and horn at me while I was along PIE. :sweat:

PS: just noticed my shots are slightly tilted.

 

[altezza87]

i always take a long time to align my camera to prevent tilted images as i am still using the free tripod when the camera was bought. very hard to adjust and its so flimsy. live view helped me a lot to straighten my images also.

the van drivers must be one of the crazy ones. more and more commercial vehicles are going above speed limit on the faster lanes. very dangerous for other drivers as we can't see what is infront of them.

 

[gelosbox]

wow excellent shots! ;p

 

[2evans]

Nice first try! Think a slightly faster shutter would yield more of the tail lights and give a "darker" overall image.

 

[farid1980]

Very nice!!

wat lens u use for the star efect? or settings? mind to share?

have been trying w my kit lens but cant. do i nd to change lens??

sorry for the question.. me a newbie..

 

[nixontkl]

Very nice!!

wat lens u use for the star efect? or settings? mind to share?

have been trying w my kit lens but cant. do i nd to change lens??

sorry for the question.. me a newbie..

All lens can do the star effect, all u need to do is stop down on your F, try going to F8 or F11.

Different lens produce different type or star effect. lens with straight edge aperture blade tend to produce very strong star effect. curve aperture blade lens produce softer star effect, the spikes of the star is not so uniform compared to the straight edge aperture blade lens.

looking at the picture from TS, i think his lens have curve aperture blade.

the star effect is produce due to the edges and coners of the aperture blades. lens with more aperture blades will produce more star spikes (but not so true for curved edge aperture blade lens)

 

[altezza87]

can try star filters also. will have nice star effect.

 

[samchong]

Hi Your photos look very sharp. Just wonda did you do any PP on these ,or because of your
15-85 len ?

 

[kohanson]

Nice first try! Think a slightly faster shutter would yield more of the tail lights and give a "darker" overall image.

thanks! yah should have use bigger aperture or higher iso but there were quite a number of cars..

Very nice!!

wat lens u use for the star efect? or settings? mind to share?

have been trying w my kit lens but cant. do i nd to change lens??

sorry for the question.. me a newbie..

I'm using EFS 15-85mm lens. To get the star effects, you will need to stopped down your aperture to maybe f11 or lower as what nixontkl has said.

Hi Your photos look very sharp. Just wonda did you do any PP on these ,or because of your
15-85 len ?

I did unsharp mask at 0.6 radius and 200 strength after I have taken the photo.

Thanks all for the positive comments.

 

[samchong]

thanks! yah should have use bigger aperture or higher iso but there were quite a number of cars..


I'm using EFS 15-85mm lens. To get the star effects, you will need to stopped down your aperture to maybe f11 or lower as what nixontkl has said.



I did unsharp mask at 0.6 radius and 200 strength after I have taken the photo.

Thanks all for the positive comments.

Sorry I don't really understand what u meant? You are using Photoshop or the software provided by canon ? You took the photos in RAW ?

 

[kohanson]

Sorry I don't really understand what u meant? You are using Photoshop or the software provided by canon ? You took the photos in RAW ?

sorry, I used the tools in photoshop to sharpen the pics.
Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask
The photos were all taken in JPEG.

 

[samchong]

sorry, I used the tools in photoshop to sharpen the pics.
Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask
The photos were all taken in JPEG.

Thank you for your clarification

 

[Bryaan]

Hello anson,

nice shots

 

[farid1980]

hmm ok..

shall try tonite..

thnx for the tips guys..

 

[pokiemon]

nice and sharp!

 

[kohanson]

Hello anson,

nice shots

thanks Bryaan, you gave me the inspiration to shoot from there. :thumbsup:

nice and sharp!

thanks !

 

[harper]

nice...

 

[ixat]

Hi Kohanson, can u advise why did you choose f11, f16 for the aperture?

Assuming all other settings remain, but a wider aperture is used, the result is a brighter pic overall?