Tasman Bridge Reflection

excellent reflection

We were fortunate enough to have a wonderfully still Hobart night so

this one of the bridge was irresistable. Any suggestions or comments

welcome.

Great shot! Couldn't be improved.

Very nice! I'm starting to think I need to go out at night and take photos =)

 

Did you have some sort of filter on the lens - the street lights have a sort of star bursty look about them?

 

well done!

 

James.

Thanks for the comments, folks. James, there was no filter used on this shot. I did take another one after this using a 25A red filter but didn't put my lens hood on and got some flaring that ruined the shot a bit. I'll try it again another night. Night photography is fantastic fun - go for it.

Nice shot. My one suggestion would be to take two shots. The second one panned to the right. Then stitch them together. The lights seem too tight along the right hand side. If there were city lights to the right like on the left I think it would look even better.

Very Nice. I love night photos and this is a great one! I often have the same problems with reflections when using filters at night. One solution I found is to buy a big filter, larger diameter then your lens barrel and hand hold it in front of the lens at an angle so the light doesn't get trapped and bounce between the filter and the lens. Tungsten films often work well at night without any filters at all. Even without the filter this is an excellent image. Congratulations Steven. For James: The starburst effect on the lights is from the aperture stopping down. This can be eliminated in most cases by shooting with the lens wide open (maximum aperture). Obviously this would be at the expense of shallow depth of field.

Thanks for answering my questions, Steven and Dennis; Dennis- I assume then the star bursts are from "diffraction" effects that everyone is always talking about ruining sharpness in macro photographs with tiny apertures?

Great use of reflection. Well done.

Very well composed and definetly underrated!