A Vicious Cycle…
A Vicious Cycle (or Circle): A situation in which the apparent solution of one problem in a chain of circumstances creates a new problem and increases the difficulty of solving the original problem (thanks a million thefreedictionary.com). That’s what we got here. In this case we’re talking about after dark photography. Simply, we don’t shoot many night photographs because the results are not up snuff, so as a result we don’t shoot many night photographs. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The photos seen here…they were captured not all that far from BIGDoer.com HQ. Presenting a lame attempt at shooting the Calgary skyline after dark, which just begs to be photographed by the way, our results not doing it a smidgen of justice. Nothing spectacular here, certainly not up to publication standards (yet here I am publishing them). Questionable focus and colour balance, too many low lights, a blown out “Super Moon”, which was spectacular but looks like a 100w bulb with no definition. And these were the best ones. Sigh…
This post is in no way related to what we’ve been speaking of…
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Date of adventure: February, 2017.
Location: Calgary, AB.
Just down from BIGDoer.com HQ.
The Supermoon was just that, super…but we didn’t do it justice.
Ditto the the skyline which begs to be shot…so/so results at best.
Doesn’t look so bad to me, but I am a bit biased.
You are such a sweetie!
It’s hard to photograph the moon and a skyline. You don’t realize how bright a full moon is until you point a camera at it! That’s why the majority of smartphone photos of the moon are white discs with no detail.
Your best bet is to take two shots, one of the moon properly exposed and one of the skyline, and blend them together in your favourite image editing program.
I really like your skyline! Calgary has a very photogenic skyline.
Our camera’s a little more than a smartphone. A wee bit more. Tried the two shot thing, and other recommended techniques, all to no avail. The moon would always blow out. Even with a fast shutter/small aperture/low iso. It was a super moon, however, which perhaps exacerbated the problem. I’m not sure (my life story). I think the only solution is to shoot more at night and learn. Too bad our old mentor, John Sharpe, passed on a couple years back – he would know. He knew EVERYTHING!