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Lights in the sky

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:40 pm
by Willigan
I took this during rehearsals for the Australia Day concert in Canberra. I thought it looked pretty interesting from that perspective, but it lost some punch because the ISO was too high, so it's a bit noisy :(

Image

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:44 pm
by marcotrov
Lovely balanced composition taken from an interesting perspective Willigan
cheers
marco

PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:06 pm
by Dug
Johnny bent over

and the sun shone out of his........... :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Sorry Doug :oops:

PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:21 am
by Alpha_7
I like the composition Craig, and it's very has a nice Mood to it as well.

Had it been raining, or is the surface naturally shiney ?

PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:00 pm
by BundyB
Dug wrote:Johnny bent over

and the sun shone out of his...........


He's got four?... explains a few things, I suppose ...

PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:11 pm
by Willigan
Alpha_7 wrote:Had it been raining, or is the surface naturlly shiney ?


The surface is a little strange - during the day it looks like ordinary old slate, but at night it's glassy & has that nice green tinge to it. I'll head back there to get some better pics in the next week or 2.

:D Doug, but it may've been the Rogue Traders putting on the light show, who I think were rehearsing at the time. That sort of music all sounds the same to me tho

PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:42 pm
by avkomp
nice capture.

as far as noise, have you tried some of the noise reduction software products out there.
My favourite is neat image.

Steve

PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:44 pm
by Alpha_7
avkomp wrote:nice capture.

as far as noise, have you tried some of the noise reduction software products out there.
My favourite is neat image.

Steve


Noise Ninja is another alternative, does the same sort of thing.

PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:05 pm
by avkomp
at least with my system and the test shots I used at the time, neat image was far superior to noise ninja.

I am sure others will say something else works better for them but neat image does it for me.

I evaluated quite a few of them a year or so ago and settled for neat image.
I had noise ninja around second from memory.

Steve

PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:35 pm
by Willigan
Alpha_7 wrote:Noise Ninja is another alternative, does the same sort of thing.


But it does it a lot quieter :)

Thanks for the tips, but I did run it through Neat Image before posting - that's how noisy the original was...

PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:17 pm
by spartikus
nice shot, apart from the noise as you said
maybe use a lower fstop to prevent the "starry" look of the lights...unless that's the look you were going for! ;)