icepics wrote: Looks like you had your lens shut down to a small aperture, and did you have a filter on the lens? maybe that cut the light too much coming in to your camera. Were the weather conditions different the last time you tried this? I'm just wondering if it might make a difference if it was more/less hazy, overcast etc.
I like the third one with the rocks in the foreground, that frames it nicely and adds interest I think. You might need to keep an eye on your horizon lines too and check to make sure the camera's straight every time you set up. Looks like a fun project to keep experimentng with.
Hey Steve thanks for the info, i did take them from Brooklyn side. I will experiment with a lower F-stop the next time i'm down there.steveheap wrote: Not sure what the camera is (sorry if I missed it)
I've taken these shots (from Brooklyn, isn't it?) and most things are either at infinity or pretty close, so with a wide lens, you don't need an aperture smaller than f8 or so. At f22, you are extending your exposure needlessly and are losing sharpness because of the diffraction effects at small aperture sizes.
Also, I suspect that the exposures are probably dark (ie on a histogram the values are shifted to the left and not much at the highlight end.) As a result, you are having to increase the brightness as you process them and that increases noise a lot in the dark areas. When you take your next shots, look at the histogram on the back and see if you have a peak towards the middle/right - if not, move across to manual exposure and adjust the aperture/speed to make it brighter.
The polarizing filter is not helping - I think you want the reflections in the water of the buildings so take that filter off the lens.
Steve
steveheap wrote: This one was a bit earlier in the evening than yours, but this was 6 seconds at f8 at ISO200. This makes me think you were heavily underexposing with your F22 and 30 seconds which meant that you had to increase the brightness a lot to get the exposure looking OK - hence increasing the noise.
Steve
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