Some Night Photography

[Paul Lange]

These were taken a while back. I have only recent worked out what I wanted to do with them. Although a lot of the lighting was various bright colours I though going BW was the way to go as there was too many distracting colourful things in the images and I like the shadows best in these.

Taken with a Nikon P7000 at ISO800. I think I rested it on some railings because of the long shutter times.

 

[Dave Moss]

Some great shots Paul

 

[Pete Askew]

Very nice Paul. I like the contrast of the dark fluidity of the Bosphorus (?) with the street scenes around. And the blurred figure in the first shot really adds something as does the amazing shadows.

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks Dave & Pete.

Bosphorus - I had to look that up. These were taken in the central part of Istanbul on the Europe side, close to the ferry port so right at the edge were the river meats the sea.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Wow, so much to look at in all photos.
Fabulously excicuted! ..... And how sharp?!!! Impressive mate, very impressive!

 

[Ralph Thornton]

Definitely a lot to see in these photos. I agree that color might have been too busy. My favorite is the second.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Great idea to go to B&W - loving the tones in #3 and the way the reflection in the sea looks like icicles

 

[Jim Kuo]

I love the capture of movement in #1 and high perspective shot of the area in #2, as Dan and Ralph said, lots of interesting subjects in it.

Were these taken using a 50mm lens?

 

[Paul Lange]

Thank you for the kind comments guys.

Jim they were taken with my P7000 so most likely the zoom was set differently for each one.

 

[Jim Kuo]

Cool, thanks for the info.

 

[Hamish Gill]

i love that first shot mate!
Have you used some sort of built in high DR mode have you?

 

[Tim Pindar]

I like the B&W here, I might try that with one or two of my market shots.

 

[Brodie Jackson]

awesome shots, Paul

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks again guys for the comments.
Hamish, These were taken at either ISO 800 or 1600 in Aperture mode and the cameras inbuilt auto NR turned on. It only activates if it detects high noise levels and seems to do a reasonable job. I presume it changes the RAW file - one of the few things that does.