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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Sr.Cordeiro on March 28, 2007, 08:17:05 am

Title: breaking the rules - does it work?
Post by: Sr.Cordeiro on March 28, 2007, 08:17:05 am
Hi,

Here is a long exposure on a park at night. It was impossible to have all the photo well exopsed, too much differences on light but I like the result either way. Do you think it works?

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Title: breaking the rules - does it work?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 28, 2007, 09:23:55 am
It does for me. One thing that makes night photographs interesting is the sense of mystery you get from dark areas with no detail. If this were all "well-exposed", it would not be nearly as interesting. I also like the color contrast between the warm, central area and the cool light in the lower right corner.

Nice!
Title: breaking the rules - does it work?
Post by: Sr.Cordeiro on March 28, 2007, 09:51:18 am
Thanks

The only thing that bothered me is the clipped area on the lamp, but I like it now. The cool light on the corner was made with the flash, during the exposure I runned with the flash on hand and shoot it in manual mode. I was lucky because it was the last shot before the battery was gone
Title: breaking the rules - does it work?
Post by: wolfnowl on March 29, 2007, 05:47:46 pm
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It does for me. One thing that makes night photographs interesting is the sense of mystery you get from dark areas with no detail. If this were all "well-exposed", it would not be nearly as interesting. I also like the color contrast between the warm, central area and the cool light in the lower right corner.

What Eric said... me too!

Mike.
Title: breaking the rules - does it work?
Post by: popnfresh on April 15, 2007, 05:35:25 pm
Ditto. Sure, it breaks some rules. But this is one case where rule-breaking works. Nice shot.
Title: breaking the rules - does it work?
Post by: robertvine on April 17, 2007, 08:39:53 am
This is pretty cool, though I would say that it is exposed perfectly! Looks like a giant wand - kind of like ET's finger!