We flew over the city, over Lake Michigan, then turned around to land at ORD (O'Hare). Fortunately, I was on the correct side of the plane and seated in the window seat. It was a clear night, but I had to use ISO5000 to get anything at all -- so don't look too close. You can see the main part of the city structures and the solid black to the left is the lake. Spent the day packing up...tomorrow we move into our little loft rental downtown. Bill, Junko, Jim and I had a great dinner at home cooked by the guys - salmon, rice, salad and a wonderful pinot noir. Then watched more episodes of Mozart in the Jungle. We're going to miss living together -- it's been a lot of fun.
@tonydebont Thanks re not seeing a lot of grain. It's best not to enlarge at all! The aperture was as low as I could go with that lens -- my basic walkabout is fine but not great in low lighting. it's a 28-300, f4.5-5.6 depending on the zoom.
I don't think I've ever seen an aerial cityscape quite as dramatic as this one... a Fav for me. I'm looking at this on an iPad so I can't give a a critical comment about the noise but I would expect it to be reasonably contained at ISO5000 with the D610... always providing that the image was correctly exposed: if you had to push the exposure then noise will build up rapidly.
ok, I'm bracing myself for a landing right into nostalgia. Though, looking at the endless streets, I wonder how anyone can ever live in places that have SO many people. I have! I loved it! But it sure is different than the country.
Awesome shot- I always love a night shot of a city from an airplane window. It's like jewels strewn across black velvet- although in this case someone took the time to put them in a linear pattern!
@vignouse Thanks Richard. You're right re pushing it showing noise. I had to push exposure a little and fortunately, it wasn't so much that the luminosity and detail sliders couldn't complement it and keep the noise down. Full frame does make a big difference I've found.
