15 seconds of exposure Photo

Photographer’s Note

Experimental shot.

When I came to the balcony of my room at 9th floor of a hotel at a bank of Volga in that extremely warm April evening, I saw beautiful view of surroundings.

But street lightning in Kostroma is not so bright, so I tried to take several shots with very long exposure abuting the camera on the balcony's railing.

Here is one of these shots. Actually, the church and the bell-tower were almost fully dark.

This church called "Voznesenia na Debre" (can be translated as "Resurrection at the Thicket") was build in 17th century by money of merchant Kirill Isakov, who traded stains with England. Once when he sorted bought stain, he found many gold coins in one of barrels and spent these money for building a church.

Brightness, contrast and colours of this picture was not edited by imaging software.

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lousat (15034) 2008-04-18 8:56

Hi Igor,i like a lot the night's pics,this is very great,perfect choice of time of exposure and excellent colours and sharpenss,my best compliments,luciano

Asiulus (1064) 2008-04-18 9:02

Privet Igor!
I envy you the room with such a view ;-) But I think to bring out the best of its night time, you would have to use more than one exposure and make HDR image. This scene is too much for just one shot, even if you've done your best(and didn't make any PP - wow!). I'm surprised that apart from the light sources nothing is overexposed, the church looks nice. It would be worth a try to show more of the background, but as far as I know, you can't use any longer exposures on this camera.
I suppose it would be the best to shoot at sunrise or sunset to capture both the lights and the vicinity.
Have a pleasant weekend
Joanna

Uhu (7340) 2008-04-19 2:47

Отличная фотка и note тоже!

Hellas (5099) 2008-04-29 5:53

A quite good exposure, indeed! The contrast of the crosses with the black background is fantastic! No overexposure and fine details, too! It was worth trying!
Warm regards,
Athanasios.