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GR at night

33dollars

33dollars

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Unprocessed JPEG at night.
Just after the cops stopped me to find out WTF I was doing.
And ya wonder why I don't do street photography in this city.
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Just tell 'em, "stop rubbernecking and move on, officers". :D

Anyway, do not let a couple of these suited and booted types ever deter you from what you want to photograph...otherwise, before you know it, we'll have a police state!
 
nice photo, like the composition, strange cop story but it doesn't surprise on planet earth, 2014, did you look sneaky or something? casing the joint for a heist? :cool:

weird kaleidoscope of colors in the corner...how do you like the gr for night scene images?
 
I've been stopped by the police about four times at night when taking photos. They just want ID & know what your up to.
I guess my name & addie gets written down with the words "photography" in the entry.
The GR is good at night. I use a tripod, with cable release & time. 100ISO 60sec @ f13 snap focus 5 meters for the shot above.
Trying to use the smallest aperture so lights don't end up as fog balls of light.
Don't use auto focus at night because it has trouble with low light. Focusing at night is best on infinity, manual or snap.
There is always a trade off somewhere. Light bouncing around in the lens. Stars become streaks, blurred windy trees. loss of detail.
All the joys of night photography.

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Phil, interesting photo & story. Do you play around with the white balance too at night?

Richard
 
White balance I tend to go with CLOUDY most times because of panos or time lapse's
The biggest problem I have in Adelaide at night is Sodium Vapor lamps. It has this yellow light that is there to see through fog.
That's when you just have to go B&W
To this day I have never found a way to dumb that colour down from our street lighting
 

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Interesting link - amazing how easy it is to design a bad street light - or indeed a good one. I'm surprised that you can't do something more with the WB to reduce the tones from the lamps but then I've never tried to do this outdoors.

Richard
 
I've tried removing just the yellow from an image & had no luck.

As with night time photography. It takes time. If I spent more time moving away to another space. "the country side"
I'm sure to have bettera luck.

On a side note: The GR is a good night time camera over the GRD.
The GRD had purple night sky, whereas the GR has black night sky.
The GRDii & GRDiv are competent at night sky reproduction. I've never had a GRDiii to compare.

I do need to get outta town & shoot some stars perhaps.
 
Ive had luck in the past applying specific colour filters in post processing (generally by process of elimination).
Excuse me for testing so with a screen snap of your above image (but it made sense for this given example & i'll delete from my system as soon as I finish this posting).
So using your example I added a heavy cyan filter. Nothing else tweaked.
Not 100%, but potentially getting there.
Mike
 

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Next time cops bother you when taking night shots just tell them you `re doing your citizen plight. What kind of? Well, you just heard that talibs highjacked some UFOs and were doing rounds at night to spot some vulnerable kaffirs and you hoped to spot them in order to report it to authorities. :eek:
p.s. talking about the yellow cast, I heard that in L.A. they changed from the usual sodium street lights to LED stuff that gives the yellow cast. Might be the reason.
 
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