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Perth Cityscape

Postby MattyO on Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:33 pm

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Postby adam on Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:41 pm

Home! very nice :)
Did you shoot with a filter on? There seems to be a bit of glowing blue in the sky, but too much of an issue, overall, very clean. :)
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Postby MattyO on Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:51 pm

Nah, no filters, except for my standard UV filter.
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Postby Yi-P on Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:25 pm

Very nice, my only nitpicking is the slightly overexposed neon signs in some areas of the image, they seem overly too bright...
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Postby cawdor on Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:27 pm

Both great shots, I like #2 best.
Number 1 seems a bit dull (no fault of yours!!!), there are no cars, no life - that's Perth at night for ya :)
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Postby MattyO on Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:12 pm

Yi-P wrote:Very nice, my only nitpicking is the slightly overexposed neon signs in some areas of the image, they seem overly too bright...


Yes, i found that impossible to avoid. I had a nice shot of the city and the narrows bridge that was probably ruined by the lights being too bright.

Is tehre any sort of filter that could stop this?

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Postby adam on Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:33 pm

MattyO wrote:
Yi-P wrote:Very nice, my only nitpicking is the slightly overexposed neon signs in some areas of the image, they seem overly too bright...


Yes, i found that impossible to avoid. I had a nice shot of the city and the narrows bridge that was probably ruined by the lights being too bright.

Is tehre any sort of filter that could stop this?

Thank you everyone


My way to avoid that would be to take the photograph earlier when the sky is a little brighter (and hoping that the lights are already on), then a shorter exposure than be used and the lights may not blow out. I suppose. :)

Which UV filter were you using? Perhaps try shooting without it at night ;)
I love the bottom half the the first image!

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Postby fishafotos on Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:48 pm

Nice shot Matt.
Good to see u on this site too. Boost can get a bit much!
I really like number 2. I have seen number one about a milion times. That lookout at Kings Park gets a hell of a workout!
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Postby admajic on Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:08 pm

I really like the 2nd shot really nice reflection...
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