High Exposure shots from London

[Omid]

Hi all

Got inspired by Shadowness' photos and thread here so decided to try a few shots of my own, was only in London for a few hours and had things to do so just tried a few pics in the same place.

500D with a kit lens, would love to know what I can do to get some better shots.

They are on my FlickR at the minute

Didn't know how to embed from FlickR?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37793169@N06/sets/72157622942169531/

Thanks

Merry Xmas

 

[BenWall]

Nice shots, like this the best...

 

[Omid]

Nice shots, like this the best...

Thanks, that is the one I just knocked the saturation down on, any thing you would do to improve it?

I am thinking of getting a Neutral Density filter and using a longer shutter speed?

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

lol, glad I inspired someone

Nice shots for experimenting.

Not sure you would need a ND filter for shots at night. What settings did you use mostly?

Only other thing, watch the white balance too. Some of the shots of on the orangy/yellow side, caused by the streetlights. If you shoot in RAW that can easily be fixed.

 

[Omid]

lol, glad I inspired someone

Nice shots for experimenting.

Not sure you would need a ND filter for shots at night. What settings did you use mostly?

Only other thing, watch the white balance too. Some of the shots of on the orangy/yellow side, caused by the streetlights. If you shoot in RAW that can easily be fixed.

Ah, damn

I put the white balance on standard

Kept it at ISO 100, 30 seconds on most, some were lower, and Aperture at the highest, no flash obviously and only a UV Filter.

So I guess I can't really fix the white balance as a JPG, what would you do in Raw? Use Aperture on mac?

Thanks