Neighborhood shot after sunset

[cyeung]

I wanted some practice flying with my set of lights and stacking long exposure shots, so I got this shot about 15 minutes after sunset. Please critique: What do you like about it? What can I improve?

 

[cyeung]

Here's another shot from that evening. For those of you in the ATL, guess what mountain that is!

 

[ChrisOutdoors]

Shoot in raw and edit in post, you'll get more out of the scene. Also, shoot HDR (BRAKET EXPOSURE) then merge them all in post, you'll be amazed at the result.

 

[deckdog]

Here's another shot from that evening. For those of you in the ATL, guess what mountain that is!

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Looks like Sawnee mountain in Cumming.

 

[cyeung]

Shoot in raw and edit in post, you'll get more out of the scene. Also, shoot HDR (BRAKET EXPOSURE) then merge them all in post, you'll be amazed at the result.

That is actually what I did. Being close to night time, I wanted to maintain some amount of realism. Here's the stack, if you're interested.

 

[cyeung]

Looks like Sawnee mountain in Cumming.

Nope! Try a bit southwest of Cumming!

 

[ChrisOutdoors]

Nope! Try a bit southwest of Cumming!

Post the raw images I'll show you whats possible.

 

[deckdog]

Nope! Try a bit southwest of Cumming!

Kennesaw Mountain!

 

[cyeung]

Kennesaw Mountain!

???️

 

[ChrisOutdoors]

Here's another shot from that evening. For those of you in the ATL, guess what mountain that is!

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^ Cyeung was gracious enough to share his raw images. With a little bit of magic this is what's possible with auto exposure bracketing and a lot of tweaking.

 

[cyeung]

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^ Cyeung was gracious enough to share his raw images. With a little bit of magic this is what's possible with auto exposure bracketing and a lot of tweaking.

Thank you, @ChrisOutdoors. You certainly dialed things up a lot more than I would have!