Nightscape

[Angelo]

Please give your comments on this, my first night landscape in a very long time. Los Angeles sprawl...

I didn't do anything to this file except convert it from RAW to jpg (I see some artifacts from the compression)
This version's WB was set at cloudy:

http://angelo.smugmug.com/photos/51911220-L.jpg

I set the WB a bit cooler on this version in Capture:

http://angelo.smugmug.com/photos/51911221-L.jpg

Thanks for looking

[jeff lapoint]

Angelo,

I dig it, but I may be biased as a true blue socal man:D.

I would like to see more/a bigger downtown as a central focus. Although in that way the image kinda embodies the LA urban sprawl...my eye searches for 1 main center of intrest to lead to the others but gets a bit overwhelmed.

Where did you take this shot from? Hope to be back shooting with you guys soon:thumb and keep pumping out these night shots of LA--we certainly have a goldmine of subject material out there!

-j

[DavidTO]

Angelo,

Where'd you shoot that from? That's very similar to the view from my office, the CNN building at Cahuenga and Sunset.

[DavidTO]

Also, check out Andy's Nightshot Processing Tutorial (http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1082968).

[gubbs]

Angelo,


I would like to see more/a bigger downtown as a central focus. Although in that way the image kinda embodies the LA urban sprawl...my eye searches for 1 main center of intrest to lead to the others but gets a bit overwhelmed.


-j :agree too much to look at :D

[Angelo]

Angelo,

I dig it, but I may be biased as a true blue socal man:D.

I would like to see more/a bigger downtown as a central focus. Although in that way the image kinda embodies the LA urban sprawl...my eye searches for 1 main center of intrest to lead to the others but gets a bit overwhelmed.

Where did you take this shot from? Hope to be back shooting with you guys soon:thumb and keep pumping out these night shots of LA--we certainly have a goldmine of subject material out there!

-j

Jeff you're quite right and I should've qualified my original statement. This was an experiment in tripod mounted, long exposure, night photography; and not so much an exercise in creative composition. I know of far better vistas to shoot in future after I nail the exposure "thang".

I took this from high in the Hollywood hills.

[Angelo]

Angelo,

Where'd you shoot that from? That's very similar to the view from my office, the CNN building at Cahuenga and Sunset.

David - you're office is mere blocks from me. This was shot curbside on a private road at the very top of Fairfax Avenue, high above Hollywood (I don't remember the actual street name) so I can see how you would recognize the view, looking south, as it is indeed the same, just about 1/2 mile west of Cahuenga.

(Your question reminds me of a night shot of the Arclight Theatre and Sunset Blvd I recall from my first days as a dGrinner, shot from the CNN parking lot, was that yours?)

[Angelo]

Also, check out Andy's Nightshot Processing Tutorial (http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1082968).

I will, thanks. :thumb

[bfjr]

Hey Angelo
1st thanks for the updates you sent have been reading in bits and pieces between work.

what others have said about shot is how I feel. Now that I have a proper tripod would like to try myself.

All you L. A. guys and gals why don't we set up a meet at the top of Baldwin hills for some landscape practice. Excellent view of city from there.

here's a shot from that area
http://bfjr.smugmug.com/photos/21855691-L.jpg

[DavidTO]

(Your question reminds me of a night shot of the Arclight Theatre and Sunset Blvd I recall from my first days as a dGrinner, shot from the CNN parking lot, was that yours?)


Yep, from the roof of the parking garage at work...

[Angelo]

Yep, from the roof of the parking garage at work...

Very cool. I'm reminded of it everytime I walk by the theater.