La Tour Goguin Photo

Photographer’s Note

La Tour Goguin - one of few remaining parts of Nevers medieval town walls.
Taken at 22:39 (about 50 minutes after sunset) from the bridge over River Loire in the center of Nevers.
To increase dynamic range I made 3 separate exposures of 4 seconds, 10 seconds and 25 seconds and later combined them into one final image. Camera settings for all 3 exposures: 56 mm zoom (later cropped), ISO-200, AV mode, manual focus, mirror lockup, remote release.
I mostly used 10 sec exposure to create final image, except for dark trees on the right and brightly lit part of the tower. All 3 images were converted from Raw with color temperature set to 4650K.

Guenther, bapun1, coco, lousat, jvachon has marked this note useful

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Guenther (6807) 2008-07-04 13:31

Hi Linas,

what a brilliant result! wonderful light and colours, a very beautiful composition .... compliments!

Have a nice weekend
Günther

bapun1 (801) 2008-07-04 13:33

Very nicely done. Good output!

Regards,
Bishnu.

coco (27754) 2008-07-04 13:41

Hi Linas.

Wonderful work with the composition and with the exposure. Really I love this night shot.

Well done.

lousat (15302) 2008-07-04 13:53

Hi Linas,i like a lot this place and especially the moment when was take.Perfect choice of time of exposur,great colors and impressive sharpness,my best compliment,have a nice weekend,Luciano

Hunkar (4639) 2008-07-04 14:06

A beautiful image with the lovely buildings..
Vivid colors..
Good light..

jvachon (542) 2008-07-04 18:06

hello Linas,
A very inpressive evening shot with such warm light that really displays the interesting brick work of the tower.
A very well balanced composition with a lot of interest.
Lots to like.
have a great weekend, joni

Morac (20206) 2008-07-04 22:04

Hello Linas,
Superb colors and very beautiful result for this perfect composition.
Regards
Marc

Valerka (8159) 2008-07-04 22:34

Hi,Linas,
Et bien, c'est ca le charme des villes provinciales francaises:)Le cadre est tres bien compose et tres architectural:)
Merci et bon WE
Valerka:)

amaryllis (17315) 2008-07-04 23:16

bonjour,
un tres bon cadrage de cette Tour Goguin à l'heure bleue avec une bonne gestion de la lumière; une superbe architecture
excellente composition (dommage pour les voitures mais difficile de faire autrement)
juliette

azleader (6) 2008-07-11 11:51

Very nice image... the lighting you recorded because of your exposure settings and taking taking it almost an hour after sunset are quite spectacular. Great job!