Shanghai at Night

[John Holland]

At the beginning of October I had the opportunity to visit China. I spent 10 days there covering several cities. Starting with Shanghai. We arrived the last part of Golden Week (a national holiday), and it was very crowded.
A couple of night time shots of the iconic light display of the Shanghai skyline from the Bund.

(first image at ISO 32,000; second image at 16,000; 24mm, 1/60 second, f/5 for the first and f/4.5 for the second image)

 

[Dave Farnes]

Wow! What beautiful images - well done!

 

[Milan Vjestica]

You have steady hands John. Nice shots.

Shanghai is always crowded, especially The Bund in the evenings!

 

[Roshni Patel]

Lovely shots. I would say that shots are splendid!

 

[John Holland]

Thank you Dave,Milan, and Roshni for your comments. Milan, you are correct about the crowds, and the Golden Week holiday seemed to add even more people.

 

[Pete Askew]

Impressive stuff, John. And the clouds / smog adds quiet an effective element to the images.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

What "moore" is there to say, marvelous.

 

[John Holland]

Thank you Pete and Ivar for your comments. Here is another from a slightly different vantage point. This is a multi frame pano.

 

[Pete Askew]

Gorgeous.

 

[John Holland]

I tried out a new Photoshop plug-in called Avkis Neon on two of the Shanghai night skyline images

 

[Pete Askew]

Now that is interesting, and effective on this image.