Question about shooting skylines

kachung

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So, I'm having issues shooting the NYC skyline. I recently moved across the Hudson, and have a perfect view of the length of Manhattan. Issue is, I'm new to my DSLR and there's a little bit of light flooding behind me. I'm also not sure why the lights of the city almost make me dizzy to look at. I'm using a heavy tripod, so it's not a lack of a steady surface...

Disregard the awful pictures/set up below... It's just an example of what I'm having issues with.

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Any help would be grateful! I've tried under exposing, over exposing and changing the F/stop. I'm sure it's an easy fix, but I thought I'd ask!

Thanks!
 
The second image shows movement. You see all points of light are angled lines in the same direction, diagonally from left to right up.

The first looks like missed focus a little bit.
What were your settings on the first one?

The exposures look ok though.
 
The settings look like f/4.8 2.5 seconds.
It was very very windy that night, even with my very heavy/sturdy tripod, I'm wondering if that played a huge role in it too.

It's frustrating because I played with the settings a lot and still, the lights turned out dizzy looking in all of the pictures I took.
 

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