Leaves me speechless. I've never tried shooting HDR at night, but when I see your results.. Awesome work, not easily rivaled.

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~~ Jan

walks the wrong pathways.

Hello, I live in the Portland area and since seeing pictures of Portland at night on Deviant, I've really wanted to try it. I was just wondering if you have any tips as to taking pictures at night? I have a didgital SLR 10.2 megapixel Sony A100, and any help would be appreciated. Great picture by the way. And... what is "HDR?"

HDR is High Dynamic Range. It consists of taking multiple shots that are under exposed and over exposed to capture all of the shadows and lighting details. You then merge them together and tonemap these highlights so they are brought out in the jpeg. I have a bit if info in my journal pertaining to it which you might find an interesting read.

In terms of shooting at night, I never use a flash for what I shoot. I try to place myself in places that have good ambient lighting so it fills the shot. An open shutter is a most. The longest exposure in this composition is 15 seconds, an ISO of 50, and 2.8 for the aperature. You can also use a higher ISO and shorter shutter to gain similar effects but I have found noise is a problem with my camera with a high ISO. I am still fairly new to using a camera with manual mode so I am sure I just need to fine tune things and practice more.

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Alright then, I'll look into your journal entry. Thanks a bunch.

So pretty!

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"The very idea that art is not important boggles my mind. Why schools these days want to cut their art and music programs is beyond my comprehension. I have spent my entire life creating and imagining. A world without art would surely drive me to suicide.

Stunning, I love this well done

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And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Nice

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very impressive. I had no idea HDR could bring out those blue hues so well. I don't see that out of many other pictures of Portland.

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i'm sitting here thinking, and I dont know why

I can never get enough of looking over at the twinkling lights as we drive over a brige or sit at the waterfront. Portland is not only cool and weird as the same time it's also beautiful. Someday I want to stop on the Freemont at night just start taking some pictures. Great job with the picture!



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