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Haymarket reflections
By adamg on Fri, 10/24/2014 - 7:43am
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Lovely
Great shot!
Haymarket has NEVER looked so
Haymarket has NEVER looked so good.
that is...
...uneven brick trip-hazards never looked so good! I agree!
It does capture the mood
It does capture the mood perfectly: wet, cold and the bus I need is never the one that shows up when I'm there.
Flashback
Great photo! reminds me of an acid trip I took in 1973. :-)
How do you take a picture
How do you take a picture like this? Everything is in focus, near field and far. And how do you dial up the warmth of the colors like that?
It's post-processing.
I've seen HDR apps which are capable of this level of processing. Download a few and experiment with them. They can be fun way to break into photography.
Look for HDR apps.
Besides using HDR in post, he
Besides using HDR in post, he almost certainly used a small aperture (smaller apertures keep things both near and far in focus) and long shutter speed (to make everything so bright, despite the small aperture) with an SLR on a tripod (because you can't nand-hold the camera with that long shutter speed).
Cellphone camera.
This wasn't an SLR. How many cellphone cameras allow adjustment of aperture? Aren't they usually fixed at f/5.6 or something similar?
This can't be a long exposure. If it was the people walking would be blurry. The guy with the backpack lifting up his foot was stopped mid-motion, as was the lady in the dark coat passing the woman in the yellow coat. The lights of the bus also are a fixed display. Long exposure will also be shown here because we would see a mix of two displays. One being the route number and the other being its destination. Kind of like how traffic light up looking during long exposure like this link:
https://flic.kr/p/divT9U
The image also has a high grain content which comes from high levels of ISO, making large increases of brightness in photoshop and is common of cellphone/point and shoot photos.
Also missing is the star pattern generated by light sources during long exposure. During an actual long exposure on a tripod, the bus would head light would have looked like the lights in the linked image below:
http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/6605/why-do-light-sources-appea...
A very nice capture of Haymarket anyhow.
How do you know this is from
How do you know this is from a cellphone? I'm curious, not disputing your claim. I agree this is not a long exposure, and I'm interested in how this was done. It makes me want to try HDR if that's what was used.
I'll ask the photographer
I just got a camera with HDR. Haven't tried it out yet, but might be interesting if I can keep from getting carried away with it (I've seen too many way-overdone HDR photos).
When will you be posting your first HDR photo?
?
I started answering this.
My answer as to how I knew became long winded.
If you have a smartphone camera and you want to shoot photos like this. Simplest thing is to get an HDR app. If you want to do this with a DSLR start with 3 photos of various exposure levels (use a tripod for best results and don't move it while taking the three photos), combine them with an HDR program and finally tone map the HDR image.
http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-hdr-photography-basics-part-1/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_mapping
Bingo
You were right. I asked JB and he said that while he normally shoots with a Nikon D300, he used his iPhone 5s for this shot.
This is a cool picture! I like it.
The fact that everything was in focus, and the fact that it captured yesterday's mood overall, are what makes this picture so special!
Nice job.
Reminds me of the times, when still living with my parents in Lynn, I spent many a rainy or snowy evening waiting at Haymarket for a bus home.