A (Hundred) Thousand Splendid Lights
By kiranoncemore. Filed in S3 IS, kiranoncemore |Tags: monuments, Mysore, Night, palace
Av: F/3.5; Tv: 1/25s; f:14.5mm (35mm-equiv: 92mm)
This is a snap of the famous Mysuru Palace complete with grand illuminations during the Dassehra festival. I had made good use of the 270 degree flippable LCD screen on the Canon Powershot S3IS to click this photo. The photo was shot from about 1 foot above my head – I with the LCD rotated at right angles to give me a preview of what I was shooting.
- The snap was obviously not centered. I tried to rotate it using tools like GIMP and Picasa, but am not satisfied with the outcome.
- Secondly, it being a night shot and with so many thousands of light sources around, the blurry effect of on the bulbs was inevitable (or was it? Would a faster shutter-speed have done the trick?)
What I do like about this snap is
- The grand-ness of it all.
- I also think the symmetry is very good – for example the “balconies” in the entry arch, with the greenish glow – they appear very symmetric.
The surrounding double border with contrasting colors was an experiment. Although it looks decent, I think I should have rather tried to look for some “frame” instead of the border.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 at 9:53 pm |
Oh that is exquisite! Not much negative in this picture. A very fulfilling Cityscape. Cheers!
Kiran: Thanks Subhanjan. Although I feel if I had a DSLR with a larger aperture opening, I might have been able to use a faster shutter speed and get a sharper image of all the thousands of bulbs!
Sunday, June 7th 2009 at 7:09 pm |
Hey. Liked the thought of shifting the PoV. Interesting would be to take the same snaps 1 f stop below or at -0.3/0.7 ev exposure compensation.
I think that could have probably given you the clarity of bulbs. Obviously you shot at high ISO (auto??) and the noise is visible.
Why dont you try exposure compensation now in GIMP. I am not much of a digital guy so I dont relly know ‘how’ to do that in GIMP. But there certainly must be a way…
Kiran: Thanks for dropping by Laukik. Yes, I think I should experiment with the exposure compensation too. And the S3IS allows for setting that at the time of shooting too (or shooting 3 quick shots in a “exposure bracket”). Obviously, doing it during post-processing gives greater flexibility, not to mention freeing the photographer from that detail at the time of shooting
I will definitely try out exposure compensation in the future! So far, all I do is choose one of those preset options – don’t know whether they only adjust the colours or do any exposure compensation too.
This snap was at ISO 100 I think (I rarely go beyond that .. I have ruined otherwise good snaps because of ISO400!).