My first go at some night shots..

[Paul_G]

Well my parents offered to buy me a tripod for Christmas....since I wanted to choose it, rather than leave it to my parents to select, I ended up ordering it, paying for it, and picking it up! With all this in mind I thought it would be rude not to try it out before asking my parents to buy it for me

Anyway, I plumped for a Manfrotto 728b (with integrated head) which seems like a nice sturdy starter tripod. Popped out tonight into Bristol for a few photos. I've posted some of the better ones below.

Aside from correcting the white balance and mapping out a couple of dreaded hot pixels, the post processing is minimal. All comments appreciated.

Cheers

Paul

 

[Soph]

Some very good pics. Like the first brunel bridge one a lot.

 

[Android]

sweet paul.

love night pics

 

[Ali]

Great shots paul!

 

[jamesp24]

Awesome,3rd one is the best .

 

[powey]

hot pixels?

I think the shots appear abit too dark IMO

 

[Alexander]

I love night time photography and these are brilliant!

 

[BenWall]

nice pictures

 

[Fletcher]

Nice pics.

 

[Paul_G]

Cheers all.

hot pixels?

The hot pixels I was referring to were two bright red dots appearing in an identicial place (x: y: co-ords) on every photo - essentially stuck or hot pixels. I cloned them out in DPP.

 

[Dip]

What camera/setting did you use?

 

[powey]

Cheers all.



The hot pixels I was referring to were two bright red dots appearing in an identicial place (x: y: co-ords) on every photo - essentially stuck or hot pixels. I cloned them out in DPP.

What would cause this? a spec of dirt on the lens maybe?

 

[Paul_G]

What camera/setting did you use?

I was using a Canon EOS 40D with Sigma 10-20mm attached, shooting in Manual at f11, ISO 100 and varying the shutter speed as necessary. I think the shutter speed varied from anything around 7 seconds up to about 25 seconds.

What would cause this? a spec of dirt on the lens maybe?

No it's not dirt on the lens, it is in fact a pixel on the camera sensor not working properly. The majority of camera sensors are imperfect and will have one or two hot / stuck pixels, but they only tend to show themselves on long exposures and against dark backgrounds. One or two hot / stuck pixels isn't really a problem as you can clone them out, plus it's one or two of 10 million.

 

[ukaskew]

Good stuff, I've only ever experienced hot pixels with a Olympus DSLR that I had to shoot Venice with, the night pictures were covered in them, red, blue and yellow specs everywhere! I'm guessing that was a result of the tiny sensor they use.

Been lucky never to notice a single one with either of my D50s or my D90 so maybe Nikons in general stay a bit cooler.