Night Scene From My Balcony

[cmk7128]

This one was taken at around 7:30 in the evening The illumination from the garden lamp on the foliage on the bottom right side gives a nice contrast to the photo (cool evening sky vs warm bulb lighting).



Comments and suggestions are welcomed as always.

Thanks and best regards!
William Loo.

[Bytephoto]

I like this nght shot.... and I agree with you about the contrast between the cool and warms colours. It's a question of complementary colours, I think ?

However, I do think the light is too overpowering. There's a great tuto
HERE on how to post process overexposed areas. I've used it often for overexposed skies.

[cmk7128]

Thanks for your comments and suggestions, I learn sometime today .

If I understand the tutorial correctly, the technique requires two exposures of the same scene to be taken. The first one to expose the details in the highlights and the second to expose the details in the shadow.

Is this correct?

Best Regards!
William Loo.

[Bytephoto]

If I understand the tutorial correctly, the technique requires two exposures of the same scene to be taken. The first one to expose the details in the highlights and the second to expose the details in the shadow.

Is this correct?

Yes, this is correct... for certains shots two exposures are needed. However, I've found with some photos (taken in RAW format) we can duplicate the 'layer' in a photo editing soft, so we have two photos. With the necessary tools, we adjust the uppermost photo in the layers. Then we take the eraser tool and remove (in this photo example) all around the strong light source (uppermost layer). We then flatten the image.
However, this method is difficult to use on this photo as the light source is very, very strong.