Downtown Dallas at Night

[Sydor25]

Here are some shots of Dallas at night:












Comments and suggestions welcome. Thanks for looking.

[Georgi@a Peach]

Very nice! I've done a few of the Honolulu night skyline and LA from the airport. Beautiful shots. I think there is something very intriguing about night shots.

[AndrewCCM]

Very nice images here.

Thanks for sharing.

[Bobby C 01TA]

Beautiful shots!! I've been procrastinating on my downtown night shots. You have me wanting to take the shots NOW lol. Great work!

[Wes]

Literally the best night time photos of seen of Dallas. Period. VERY nicely done. Great composition and saturation.

[snidow]

Nice images I really like the last one but would give the top of the building just a touch more space and I would crop off some of the sky in the second one and bring your subject matter up from the bottom half of the composition. Great exposures on all of these!

[peeker]

Great Pictures... in a word... Stunning.

I have tried night shots before with less than optimal results. Can you let us know how you decided the fstop and shutter speeds? When I shoot, I never know how many seconds to let the shutter open and then don't get a dark sky.

Care to share your insight?
Scott

[MicWayWal]

James,

Very nice work. Yes please share with us your process with these images.
Also, did you just rent a room or did you get special access to the W for your shots?

[L Stegall]

Originally Posted by MicWayWal

James,

Very nice work. Yes please share with us your process with these images.
Also, did you just rent a room or did you get special access to the W for your shots?

I was wondering the same things......

Beautiful stuff!

[Sydor25]

Originally Posted by MicWayWal

James,

Very nice work. Yes please share with us your process with these images.
Also, did you just rent a room or did you get special access to the W for your shots?

Rented a room at the hotel for the White Rock Marathon. My wife and I really like the hotel and you can't beat the location for the start/end of the marathon.

We stayed there in 2007 as well, but they used to close the pool level after sunset, this year it was open at night.

Nothing special about the process. I usually use center-weighted metering, Av and I adjust the EC based on how much of the night sky is in the frame. If I plan on making an HDR photo, I will auto-bracket 5 or 7 shots.


Here is the EC for each shot here:

1: +1
2: +1
3: 0
4: 0

[planespotter]

UHHHHHHHHHH..........WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!....Awe some!!!!!!

[ndsimm]

Originally Posted by MicWayWal

Also, did you just rent a room or did you get special access to the W for your shots?

nice shots indeed, but for those of us not from Dallas, what is the W???

[DanStar]

Well, I am from Dallas and don't know what the "W" is

[RIDDLER STUDIOS]

Nathan,
It's the name of the hotel in Downtown Dallas:

http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotel...ropertyID=1521

Riddler


www.riddlerstudios.com
www.flickr.com/riddlerstudios

[SpeedkingXSi]

did you use a flash? what kind?
nice shots