San Diego and the blue hour Photo

Photographer’s Note

Yesterday, after a long time passed, I went out for some nightshots.

I visited the river Elb and the harbor of Hamburg. We had lovely 25° in the evening, a nice summer day.

Why do I love nightshots?
Because after the motive for me the exposure counts a lot.
It is always a "game" to see, if you can give back the light conditions as they were (no overexposure, details in the shadows et cetera), which is technically with one shot almost not possible.

Here I used as always in my nightshots the DRI method, which after years I have speziliazed and optimized.

The white thin frame I added, because I found a lot of photos of mine stolen in the internet.

Hope you like it.

C U
Saki

post processing
- Three photos merged together
- NO HDR
- f11 and one f 5,6
- sharpened
- sky neated
- add white thin frame plus copyright

swiatopelk777, Cretense, bostankorkulugu, cherryripe has marked this note useful

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swiatopelk777 (9706) 2009-07-30 2:26

Hi Sakis!
Amazing ship, wonderful huge ship. Very interesting port and scenery. Nice colors.
Greetings from Poland!

ngk (1170) 2009-07-30 2:44

geia soy Saki
panemorfi fotografia , ekpliktiko to blue!
bravo
kali synexia
se xaireto
nasos k.

Cretense (57430) 2009-07-30 2:58

Geia sou Saki!

I eidikotita sou! Axeperasti i mastoria sou stin "ble" ora!!! Fotismos gia seminario, oraio kadro kai synthesi, axeperasti oxytita, teleia ap' oles tis apopseis, filaraki! Sygxaritiria!

Iraklis

ktanska (16733) 2009-07-30 3:13

Hi Sakis,
Beautiful blue hour long exposure. Sky and artificial illumination are well in balance. The ship with it's numerous cranes looks interesting.
Kari

bostankorkulugu (34148) 2009-07-30 8:47

your best shot for ages, lol... and if someone decides to steal it, it is easy to cut 5 mm from each side to get rid of the border and the name...

great shot indeed whisky mou, makes me wanna go to hamburg as soon as possible...

kuzey tnx and kisses you all...

bema (9202) 2009-07-30 9:16

Hallo Sakis,

wunderschöne Aufnahme und wie beschrieben eine ganz tolle Nachbearbeitung oder sagt man besser Zusamenstellung..

auch der Rahmen hat einen besonderen Charme..

v G Bernd

COSTANTINO (23425) 2009-07-30 12:39

Geia sou Saki,
fantastiki fwtografia me yperoxa xrwmata kai
fwtismo.Polu kalh douleia. Bravo.
Xairetismous,
Costantino

coco (28266) 2009-07-30 14:17

Kalispera Sakis.

As usual you're a very good one with the night shots. Exposure and composition look terrific.

Well done.

cherryripe (19237) 2009-07-31 3:00

Hi Sakis
The DRI gives a superb result. How does have 2 photos at f11 and one f5,6 make a difference ? The sharpness of the boat is impeccable and contrasts so well against the smooth water.
Regards
Nikki

luighi (4308) 2009-08-01 7:32

Hi Sakis ,
Despues de repasar brevemente tu galeria he llegado a la conclusion de que haces unas fotos muy elegantes y super atractivas.
Y esta es un ejemplo , con genial exposicion en la hora azul y estupenda luz y colores . Una nitidez y definicion excelente.
Un cordial saludo .
Luis