Architecture

[Okiewan]

I love shooting buildings too. This is a Church in Carrollton, TX.
Post processing; black storm clouds, and "glow" around the edges of the building.

 

[Okiewan]

The Gaylord Texan at sunset. Was playing around with exposure.

 

[Rich Rohrich]

A first attempt at night shooting.

View from the Wacker/Dearborn bridge in downtown Chicago.

 

[Okiewan]

Yes!

 

[Rich Rohrich]

Another one from the same area on a different night.

 

[Rich Rohrich]

The toughest part was pulling off a bunch of 10-30 second exposures without the bridge shaking from the cars going over it and killing the shot. :-)

 

[Okiewan]

That's another good one ...

Trick for shooting long exposures (for those that might not know), you need to cover the "view finder" so light won't leak in.

 

[Okiewan]

Hope you don't mind me messing with it?
I applied an overlay (74%) to get some more contrast (darken the water, etc).

 

[Rich Rohrich]

Hope you don't mind me messing with it?

Go for it. :cool:


I can't tell if it looks good from here on my notebook. I probably should have posted from home so I could put up a best image instead of the one that was handy. :)

I tend to leave my pics in as shot state as much as possible. When they don't look good enough it makes me work harder on getting the picture right the first time. For me, taking pictures is still more fun than messing with photoshop.

 

[Okiewan]

Hey, photogs spend endless hours in the darkroom doing the same mods to their film shots, so I don't feel so bad :)

 

[Rich Rohrich]

Hey, photogs spend endless hours in the darkroom doing the same mods to their film shots, so I don't feel so bad :)

I didn't mean that way. :) It was more me pointing out that I'm lazy enough to shoot more and PS less.

It's hard not to appreciate what can be done with the current crop of tools in the right hands. :cool: