Took my d7000 for some night shots

[Kbarredo]

This was the best out of all of them. I was wondering how I could stop all the lights from looking like stars. I know most people like the star look but its everywhere in this pic.

 

[jaomul]

Try sacrifice a little bit depth of field and use a bigger aperture. star effect on lights are enhanced by small aperture. cool shot btw

 

[KmH]

The spikes around the lights are called 'diffraction spikes' and are cause by the lens aperture blades.

The wider the aperture used the shorter the diffraction spikes are.

As far as the DoF, DOF gets depper the further away from the camera the focus point is. You used a 50 mm lens at f/10. According to an online DoF calculator, using a 50 mm lens at f/3.5 and a point of focus 2500 feet from the camera, the near DoF limit would be 115 feet from the camera and the far limit would be infinity. Even with your point of focus at 5000 feet the near DoF limit only increases to 120 feet. The far DoF limit will stay at infinity.

The white balance in you photo needs adjusting.

 

[SabrinaO]

Wow i thought the star effect was only possible with one of those filters! Good to know! Nice shot but don't like the crop. Especially at the bottom it leaves me wanting to see more.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

What town is that

 

[Judobreaker]

Star shapes are made with straight blade apertures I think.
Rounded apertures can't do them.

 

[DiskoJoe]

This was the best out of all of them. I was wondering how I could stop all the lights from looking like stars. I know most people like the star look but its everywhere in this pic.

You would have to use a larger aperture.

 

[DiskoJoe]

Star shapes are made with straight blade apertures I think.
Rounded apertures can't do them.

They can but they are shaped different. Any lens will do this.

 

[Kbarredo]

Wow i thought the star effect was only possible with one of those filters! Good to know! Nice shot but don't like the crop. Especially at the bottom it leaves me wanting to see more.

Lol the bottom was just 50ft tall pine trees so all you would see is black silhouettes. I either had too much black trees or too much black sky. Thats the downside of living in heavily wooded areas. 2wheelphoto thats prince george in canada. And congrats on becoming a mod kmh.

 

[DiskoJoe]

Wow i thought the star effect was only possible with one of those filters! Good to know! Nice shot but don't like the crop. Especially at the bottom it leaves me wanting to see more.

lol, me too. I thought it was going to load up some more but it didnt =[

 

[Kbarredo]

The spikes around the lights are called 'diffraction spikes' and are cause by the lens aperture blades.

The wider the aperture used the shorter the diffraction spikes are.

As far as the DoF, DOF gets depper the further away from the camera the focus point is. You used a 50 mm lens at f/10. According to an online DoF calculator, using a 50 mm lens at f/3.5 and a point of focus 2500 feet from the camera, the near DoF limit would be 115 feet from the camera and the far limit would be infinity. Even with your point of focus at 5000 feet the near DoF limit only increases to 120 feet. The far DoF limit will stay at infinity.

The white balance in you photo needs adjusting.

I was also struggling with the white balance. What do you suggest I use? I tried tungsten and everything looked too blue. This was the closest I could get to the actual picture.

 

[KmH]

There are 2 main light types in your photo. Low pressure sodium vapor, the orangish-yellow lights, and mercury vapor lights, the bluish-green lights.

 

[Mach0]

There are 2 main light types in your photo. Low pressure sodium vapor, the orangish-yellow lights, and mercury vapor lights, the bluish-green lights.

So what did you set it to?

 

[Kbarredo]

Thats

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There are 2 main light types in your photo. Low pressure sodium vapor, the orangish-yellow lights, and mercury vapor lights, the bluish-green lights.<br>
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Thats actually what the original looked like. I was actually trying to get rid of that blue haze.

 

[KmH]

There are 2 main light types in your photo. Low pressure sodium vapor, the orangish-yellow lights, and mercury vapor lights, the bluish-green lights.

So what did you set it to?

I didn't set it to anything, and just eyeballed it. I used ACR and adjusted the Tone and Tint sliders some. Then I used the ACR HSL panel and adjusted some more.

When there are multiple light color temperature sources in a digital photo only 1 of those light sources can be fully corrected for, or all the light sources can be only partially corrected for, which is what I did.