Train Station

[AaronLLockhart]

C&C Please
Exif data should be in photo properties

 

[AaronLLockhart]

Critiquing myself a little bit... it looks as if the train is the only one I have completely in focus. It also looks like there is a LOT of ISO noise in the other two.

 

[AaronLLockhart]

Man.... 100 views and no one has anything to say about what could make these photos better?

 

[irfan.in.tx]

I think the composition on 1 and 2 can be improved by cropping. The blown highlights on the lamps are a negative.

 

[AaronLLockhart]

I think the composition on 1 and 2 can be improved by cropping. The blown highlights on the lamps are a negative.

Thank you for the insight. Any tips on how to keep it from blowing out with that exposure level?

 

[irfan.in.tx]

Can't say. I have the same problem myself, so would be interested in hearing from more knowledgeable folks here.

 

[LizardKing]

Maybe someone more experienced has a better answer... But there's no magic to it, I think. You just have to lower the exposure.If you expose to get details in the shadows, you'll blow the highlights.
Basically, you cannot have it both ways... unless you shoot HDR

 

[SCraig]

^^^ What he said.

They really needed to be rendered in HDR. Any time you have bright lights at night you are going to lose something somewhere, cameras just don't have that kind of dynamic range. If you expose for the highlights you will lose the shadows; if you expose for the shadows you will lose the highlights. Take a series of shots exposed for the shadows, mid range, and highlights and combine them in HDR and you can keep it all though.

 

[fjrabon]

I like them all a lot, but they all need to be straightened. 3 really should be perfectly centered, given the subject. I'm okay with the blown lights.

 

[AaronLLockhart]

Thank you guys for the feedback!!!! HDR would have been impossible on the train, as it was moving

 

[manaheim]

The third is very cool. Very. But yes, could use a bit of straightening.