Nighttime photography pictures from last night

SeanL · Jun 20, 2006

I went out tonight to take some pictures of our community clubhouse. I was going to take pictures of the fountains, but the water was drained for some reason, so I settled for these. I think I'm in love with nighttime photography now. Since I was using a high ISO, there was some noise unfortunately. I'll have to pick up Noise Ninja or something else. Also, there was no photo editing at all, these are straight off the camera, except for number 4 which I lightened up just a tad. This was my first attempt at night photography, so let me know what you think. Taken with a Nikon D70.

WNK · Jun 20, 2006

Interesting shots! I'll bet these were a lot of fun to take!! Keep shooting!

seven · Jun 20, 2006

Good experimenting with zoomers. In time you'll get that really sweet shot. Keep on shooting.

LaFoto · Jun 21, 2006

You did really well! Congrats!
And not only did you try out nighttime photography for the first time, you also played around a bit and tried your hands at some zoomers! Cool!
I really like your Photo 1 here, and the effect created on that one in Photo 2. And as a sucker for the colour green, I must like Photo ... hmph, gotta count them through again (can't you number them, and if only for me, please?

) ... Photo --- ach: the last but one!

lil dvl · Jun 21, 2006

Zoomers, can some one explain please? im assuming its where you take a shot while zooming ! am i right?

but anyway id have to say i like '1' the best!

LaFoto · Jun 21, 2006

Yes, long exposure and you zoom in while you expose. We here call them zoomers. I don't know if that is a proper term, though. I only learned to use that term here on your very TPF

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SeanL · Jun 21, 2006

LaFoto said:
Yes, long exposure and you zoom in while you expose. We here call them zoomers. I don't know if that is a proper term, though. I only learned to use that term here on your very TPF .

I call it "zooming the lens while the image is being captured" lol.

Thanks for the comments guys, any questions or more thoughts?

LaFoto · Jun 22, 2006

Well then: isn't "zoomer" a helpful (since short and still quite to the point!) little term? I think so. And you did well with yours - my first attemps all got very wavey lines for the lens would not move in smoothly. So again: you did well!