I've managed to pull a muscle in my shoulder which is quite painful and has been hanging around for quite a while, so I was travelling light tonight -- just the camera and ultra-wide lens, no tripod.
This red bench (or actually, row of benches) is near Canada Place, just about visible in the background, with the North Shore mountains beyond.
The problem when I go out without a tripod is that however good the shots are at high ISO (and with this camera they're incredibly good), I still wish I had the extra detail and sharpness a low ISO shot would have given me!
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This is a beautiful shot. My favorite photos are ones of benches. Hope your shoulder feels better soon and you can get back out there with full camera gear
Alex. Beautiful. I think any detail you would have achieved with a low ISO would be lost in a jpeg posted for the Internet, but I do understand if you want a super sharp large print. The blues are stunning. Might I ask what you might have done, if anything, to get them so perfectly balanced? Fav.
Sorry about the shoulder. Hope it gets fixed up quickly.
@frankhymus Mostly I just try and shoot around the 'blue hour' -- from 15 minutes before civil dusk to 15 minutes after usually works best for me.
In shots like this where the main blue element is the sky (and reflected elements of the sky), you can easily do minor tweaks to the brightness of the sky by masking off the blue areas using the Select -> Color Range... option in Photoshop, then using a Levels or Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. If you have other elements that are blue of their own accord, you need to be a bit more careful with masking.
December 9th, 2012
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Sorry about the shoulder. Hope it gets fixed up quickly.
In shots like this where the main blue element is the sky (and reflected elements of the sky), you can easily do minor tweaks to the brightness of the sky by masking off the blue areas using the Select -> Color Range... option in Photoshop, then using a Levels or Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. If you have other elements that are blue of their own accord, you need to be a bit more careful with masking.