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p.1 #1 · 4 minute exposure

Went out for a ride this morning looking to do some long exposures in total darkness. I wanted to test the D700 to see how it would handle in terms of noise, hot pixels, etc.

Took this picture of the Eiffel Tower which was only lit up by twilight and street lamps.

By no means a prize winning photograph but in the end I think the camera delivered encouraging results and will look to do some more long exposures in the future.

Mark

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Oct 04, 2008 at 09:41 AM

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p.1 #2 · 4 minute exposure

A very nice shot. Derek

Oct 04, 2008 at 10:53 AM

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p.1 #3 · 4 minute exposure

Very nice composition and love the sky colour!! A little nitpick, the tree look somewhat oversaturated.

Oct 04, 2008 at 12:01 PM

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p.1 #4 · 4 minute exposure

Dneufarth wrote:
A very nice shot. Derek

Cheers Derek

Mark

Oct 04, 2008 at 01:02 PM

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n0b0 wrote:
Very nice composition and love the sky colour!! A little nitpick, the tree look somewhat oversaturated.

Thanks.

I think that's the effect of the long exposure as I simply used Standard picture style and +1 saturation in NX2. This said, I could bring saturation back to Standard and leave it as is.

Mark

Oct 04, 2008 at 01:12 PM

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p.1 #6 · 4 minute exposure

It is a pretty image. And unusual colors for the subject.

Oct 04, 2008 at 01:29 PM

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p.1 #7 · 4 minute exposure

Very well done. I like the composition and the exposure is great. I especially like the moving clouds near the Eiffel Tower. The light at the base of the tower is a bit distracting, but with a 4 minute exposure, that is what you're going to get.

-Nick

Oct 04, 2008 at 03:14 PM

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p.1 #8 · 4 minute exposure

Very interesting shot...I like it alot. Congrats!

Oct 04, 2008 at 03:17 PM

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p.1 #9 · 4 minute exposure

Steady Hand wrote:
It is a pretty image. And unusual colors for the subject.

Thanks Mr. Steady

Oct 04, 2008 at 04:08 PM

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p.1 #10 · 4 minute exposure

nburwell wrote:
Very well done. I like the composition and the exposure is great. I especially like the moving clouds near the Eiffel Tower. The light at the base of the tower is a bit distracting, but with a 4 minute exposure, that is what you're going to get.

-Nick

Thanks.

The only way to get the light down would be to reduce exposure, but then the whole picture moves. I did increase highlight protection in NX2 and that helped a bit but nothing dramatic.

Mark

Oct 04, 2008 at 04:09 PM

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p.1 #11 · 4 minute exposure

eonflux wrote:
Very interesting shot...I like it alot. Congrats!

Thanks !

Oct 04, 2008 at 04:09 PM

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p.1 #12 · 4 minute exposure

mholdef wrote:
Thanks.

I think that's the effect of the long exposure as I simply used Standard picture style and +1 saturation in NX2. This said, I could bring saturation back to Standard and leave it as is.

Mark

Perhaps you can use the Sponge tool in photoshop to desaturate the green.

Oct 04, 2008 at 04:36 PM

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p.1 #13 · 4 minute exposure

Very cool. My 1D would have probably actually started to smoke

Oct 04, 2008 at 04:43 PM

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n0b0 wrote:
mholdef wrote:
Thanks.

I think that's the effect of the long exposure as I simply used Standard picture style and +1 saturation in NX2. This said, I could bring saturation back to Standard and leave it as is.

Mark

Perhaps you can use the Sponge tool in photoshop to desaturate the green.

Thanks. I can even do this in NX2 by using one of the color control points focusing in on the greens.

What I have done however is bumped the saturation back to Standard and replaced the original image on line with it.

Mark

Oct 04, 2008 at 07:15 PM

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p.1 #15 · 4 minute exposure

Nice, I love the electric green trees.
Great composition
Monty

Oct 04, 2008 at 10:21 PM

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p.1 #16 · 4 minute exposure

Interesting take but I like it.

Oct 05, 2008 at 04:47 AM

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p.1 #17 · 4 minute exposure

MontyMo wrote:
Nice, I love the electric green trees.
Great composition
Monty

Thanks Monty

I also like the effect of having the colors pop, almost surreal...

Oct 05, 2008 at 01:30 PM

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p.1 #18 · 4 minute exposure

Aaron Jors wrote:
Interesting take but I like it.

Cheers

Oct 05, 2008 at 06:32 PM

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p.1 #19 · 4 minute exposure

That shot is awesome
Great perspective and fantastic color
I love existing light stuff

Oct 05, 2008 at 11:27 PM

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p.1 #20 · 4 minute exposure

surly wrote:
That shot is awesome
Great perspective and fantastic color
I love existing light stuff

Many thanks. Mark

Oct 06, 2008 at 04:28 PM

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p.1 #21 · 4 minute exposure

Now I like that. That's a very unique shot of a waaay over photographed subject. Good job!

Oct 06, 2008 at 08:38 PM

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p.1 #22 · 4 minute exposure

Seth Tower wrote:
Now I like that. That's a very unique shot of a waaay over photographed subject. Good job!

Thanks Seth

Indeed, the Eiffel Tower does draw you in to photograph it, but it is not easy to get something different as has been done ever so many millions of times.

Mark

Oct 07, 2008 at 05:54 AM

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p.1 #23 · 4 minute exposure

Awesome shot of a much shot structure Mark. Those trees sure are green though - is this a result of something in post?

Oct 07, 2008 at 11:50 PM

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p.1 #24 · 4 minute exposure

I really love the look of this image... the colors, clouds, lighting, composition, and so on. Looks wonderful.

Oct 08, 2008 at 03:53 AM

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p.1 #25 · 4 minute exposure

PaulC wrote:
Awesome shot of a much shot structure Mark. Those trees sure are green though - is this a result of something in post?

Thanks.

Actually nothing extraordinary done in post processing. Took picture in Standard mode, so these colors are very moderately saturated.

It's the long exposure that does it.

Mark

Oct 08, 2008 at 11:19 AM


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