Advice on processing night shots! :D

hoodmeister · 5 Feb 2006 at 18:32

Took a few night shots the other day... But i've realised I don't really know how best to process night shots. So that's what i'm after advice on!

I've not done anything to these, other than convert from NEF's to JPEG's, then resize. EXIF's should be in-tact, should you want to know expsoure info

#1

#2

#3

hoodmeister · 5 Feb 2006 at 18:34

#4

#5 - my lens just wouldn't get focus lock on this one, so I had to use MF, which in itself was pretty much guess work :/

#6 & #7 - i'm wanting to blend these, but am not getting anywhere, i'm getting giant halos on the bridge

cmt · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:40

A quick go at Photomatix produced these

no other processing done at all

will have another play later.

cmt

hoodmeister · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:48

Nice, I have the trial knocking about somewhere, will give that a go.

What settings did you use?

cmt · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:50

one was on standard (auto) and the other was intensive.

just fiddled about until it looked right

cmt

Creature · 5 Feb 2006 at 19:55

Lighter one on top, 50% opacity in photoshop produced this

Reidy · 6 Feb 2006 at 11:59

nice photos...

think cmt's first version of the blend looks better though

hoodmeister · 6 Feb 2006 at 20:03

Yeah, I think that photomatix is the way to go for shots with such a huge difference in exposure. So cheers for that.

Any further advice on how best to process the others though?

hoodmeister · 6 Feb 2006 at 23:40

Righty, processed two of the buggers now. Am finding them to be really un-flexible with processing, as it's so easy to blow out the highlights or obliterate the shadows...

Let me know what you think...

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