Post Your Christmas Lights! - Constructive Criticism Welcome
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Got a chance to get back to the Mansion tonight. Four shots with the EF-S 10-22mm below have no post-processing other than cropping and lens profile correction.
First & Second shot:
10mm
f/16
20 sec
ISO 100
Third & Fourth shot:
14mm
f/16
10 sec
ISO 100
Got a chance to get back to the Mansion tonight. Four shots with the EF-S 10-22mm below have no post-processing other than cropping and lens profile correction.
First & Second shot:
10mm
f/16
20 sec
ISO 100
Third & Fourth shot:
14mm
f/16
10 sec
ISO 100
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Let's see if we can revive this for Christmas 2014. I did this inside my loft - the background is a large photo I have in a window lit by an LCD panel underneath. The nativity scene is a small carving - about 2 inches big. I lit it with a candle (blocking the front of the candle with my hand with a black glove).
5D3 with 100 2_8 macro (old non L)
5D3 with 100 2_8 macro (old non L)
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Re: Post Your Christmas Lights! - Constructive Critism Welcome
Very nice. Try photographing holiday lights before it's completely dark out. You don't want too much sun either though. There's a sweet spot. The sky will be dark, but still a bit blue.
The idea is to get just enough light to show the house, lawn, etc. while not overpowering the lights.
I think you'll like the result.
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Very nice. Try photographing holiday lights before it's completely dark out. You don't want too much sun either though. There's a sweet spot. The sky will be dark, but still a bit blue.
The idea is to get just enough light to show the house, lawn, etc. while not overpowering the lights.
I think you'll like the result.
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I took some pictures of two houses across the street from mine.
http://www.stevelee.name/christmas2017/index.html
http://www.stevelee.name/christmas2017/index.html
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I have taken many pictures of the holiday lights near the city hall in Honolulu, but I won’t get them edited and posted until I get back home.
I did some bracketing, and it appears that about one stop underexposed on my G7X II is about right to keep down the spreading of the images of the lights themselves. I shoot RAW, so pulling the highlight slider to the left will likely help that, too. I probably am not losing any shadow detail in the process, not any I care about. From experience I think I am likely to pull the black slider left a maybe even the shadow slide a little left rather than right. Much of the time in editing, I’m aiming to make the picture look like things looked to me at the time I took it.
I did some bracketing, and it appears that about one stop underexposed on my G7X II is about right to keep down the spreading of the images of the lights themselves. I shoot RAW, so pulling the highlight slider to the left will likely help that, too. I probably am not losing any shadow detail in the process, not any I care about. From experience I think I am likely to pull the black slider left a maybe even the shadow slide a little left rather than right. Much of the time in editing, I’m aiming to make the picture look like things looked to me at the time I took it.
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