Viva Las Vegas

Majeed Badizadegan · Jul 2, 2012

One of my favorite shots of the Las Vegas strip:

Viva Las Vegas by Majeed Badizadegan (Rotanimod), on Flickr

JoshuaSimPhotography · Jul 3, 2012

Great use of shutter speed. But in the middle, there’s a white blotch that overexposed.

Majeed Badizadegan · Jul 3, 2012

Thanks. This was originally snapped as a 3 shot HDR, so i'll mask in the correct exposure for the sign later. it bothered me a bit too.

Jaemie · Jul 3, 2012

I like this direction, literally and artistically. Shot from this angle, The Strip appears small and far less sensational than usual. The retail rooftops add some grit and a "behind the curtain" element that continues the candid theme. It's almost like a photo of a showgirl standing off stage on her smoking break.

jed_rollins · Jul 3, 2012

Oh lord... I'm in love with this shot!!! My only detraction would be the blown highlight in the middle. Fantastic!!!

JoshuaSimPhotography · Jul 3, 2012

Rotanimod said:
Thanks. This was originally snapped as a 3 shot HDR, so i'll mask in the correct exposure for the sign later. it bothered me a bit too.

I thought it looked a bit HDRish, and I'm wondering why it's overexposed, or did you just try to give it that HDR look?

Ernicus · Jul 3, 2012

it could be because there is a huge massive bright white light sign in the middle of his shot. Kinda hard to expose for 1 single thing taking up about 1/54th of the image. I'm sure he'll fix it later in post if it becomes bothersome to him.

jed_rollins · Jul 4, 2012

Ernicus said:
it could be because there is a huge massive bright white light sign in the middle of his shot. Kinda hard to expose for 1 single thing taking up about 1/54th of the image. I'm sure he'll fix it later in post if it becomes bothersome to him.

Nobody (at least speaking for myself) is saying to expose for the billboard taking "1/54th" of the image. It should be fixed in post, unless you would like to pull the "artistic" card or something like that.

Ernicus · Jul 4, 2012

the other dude did, said he was wondering why it was over exposed. The image is not overexposed, just has one tiny blown out spot from a huge bright light, that we all know he can fix in post.

Majeed Badizadegan · Jul 4, 2012

Viva Fixed by Majeed Badizadegan (Rotanimod), on Flickr

Majeed Badizadegan · Jul 4, 2012

Just to be clear, this was single exposure. Although I shot a bracket, I only used one exposure. My language was ambiguous above.

Ernicus · Jul 4, 2012

...and viola

good stuff rotin

jed_rollins · Jul 5, 2012

I didn't read through the thread. I thought he had already post processed, which explains my pointing out the over exposure. The image is beautifully exposed. And now he fixed it

lovely!