Pompton Lake at Night

[Hui Song]

Here are a few night shoot at Pompton lake. Have not gotten shutter remote release yet when I shoot these. So the speed setting is still <30 sec. Also, I tried to get the right "Blue" tone for the sky and snow. C&C Welcomed.


#1



#2



#3



#4



#5

[ShaneS]

#3 is a great composition Hui! I love the line of trees that leads your eye to to bright lights of the city (?) in the background and the stars in the sky just top it all off.

I can't speak to the technicalities of shooting shots like these but my one suggestion is to do some selective cloning of the one streak of stars just above the tree line so it appears that there are only individual stars and not a streak.

[Hui Song]

I can't speak to the technicalities of shooting shots like these but my one suggestion is to do some selective cloning of the one streak of stars just above the tree line so it appears that there are only individual stars and not a streak.

Shane,
Thanks for your advice. The streak above the tree line is a airplane trail recorded during the long exposure. There is a airplane trail also in #4. I do want to know people's reaction for this. Should I clean it out in all the pictures? Also, Should I carefully get rid of those foot print on the snow in #1? It the bothers me.

[IzzieK]

Hui Song...I love #3 and #5 best.
#1 can benefit from a crop at the bottom and perhaps would be nice to show more of the chopped tree at the top..
#2 doesn't appeal to me so much...I think it needs a little bit of cropping at the right side...???
Now #3 -- is very very nice composition...Spectacular....
#4 is nice too...it invokes this feeling that is very mysterious...that the privacy of a village is about to be pounced on by intruders....
#5 --I love very much too along with #3. And no do not remove the contrails...only old movie styles have been ruined by the appearance of contrails and rolex watches Contrails are part of the scenes. Try removing the contrail and you remove the natural character of the picture...

Just my thoughts...

[Shadowman]

Nice series.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Hui, I like the compositions in #3,#4 and #5 very much.It is difficult to understand those white lines are actually airplane trails so I would clean them out.

[Hui Song]

Isabel, John, Binnur,
Thank you for your warm words and advice.
The airplane trail is from the light on the airplane. It is always flashing. I think keep them or not depends on the image. If the trail is unhelpful for the composition, such as the trail in #2 and #lower middle one in #5, I will get ride of them. If the trail is in good position or give more useful or mystery information to the picture, such as the trail in #4 and those two trail in #5 at right upper corner, then I can keep them.

[Paniaa]

Number 3 is very beautiful and my favourite. Like Shane, I like the leading lines, but I also like the textures, the coloursand the overall shapes in the composition. I don't understand people wanting to clone out contrails when they are not interfering with the effect of the image. Thanks Hui

[deetheturk]

Hi Hui,#3 and#4 are my favorite's,nice set!

[Sergio M.]

I like them all. Beautiful images, Hui.

Sergio