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This is beautiful! Fantastic. Wonderful. Is
there more words I could use?
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Excellent
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How you do this without noise?
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Thanks everyone.
@cristian: The D50 has a built-in
noise-reduction feature/process for long
exposures, in which after the original
exposure it closes the shutter and exposes
pure black for exactly the same amount of
time as the original exposure. Also, because
I was on a tripod (naturally, given the long
exposure), I shot this at ISO 200 which keeps
noise levels as low as possible.
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Very very very very nice.
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Yikes. That's amazing. The lights across
the water look like fire and give this a real
apocalyptic feel.
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The sky is amazing!! I think it would work
even without the sculpture there. You
captured some outstanding colors but my eyes
are fighting between the giant leg and the
sky, if that make sense??
The little lights on the horizon are also
great.
Will you do one for me without sculpture
sometime?
I know you have sooooo much free time for
personal requests.
Ha!! Bye!! Gosh I wrote a book....
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Thanks donnacv, pixthree, and Jan.
@Jan: I totally see what you're saying
about the eyes fighting thing. I struggled
with how to best compose this and think I
didn't get it quite right. It was tough to
get the sky and the sculpture without a
boring composition and also somehow convey a
discernable perspective of the sculpture
since it's in the ground facing up. I'll see
what I can do about that request :) Now I've
written a book in return!
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Awesome exposure. The colours and blurred
clouds are really wonderful.
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I have been here. Once when I was a small
child and then again when I was in middle
school.
Amazing photo.
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simply outstanding; the composition, the
colors. excellent!
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The yellow sky is pretty. Thanks for sharing
the photo of the Awakening.
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WOW - great night capture!
Please consider adding this to my group - "After the Sun Has Set"
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Hey, also how do you get the D50 to do that -
I have not been able to figure it out - guess
I could read the manual, but just thought I
would ask.
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beautiful exposure, great subject and
composition - nice job
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Thanks everyone! It's hard not to get some
cool effects when doing long exposures around
D.C., I think.
@ram: As far as getting the D50 to do
"this", I'm assuming you mean a
long exposure. For anything up to 30
seconds, you can set the shutter in shutter
priority or manual mode. In manual mode, you
can also set the shutter speed to
"bulb", which opens the shutter
with a first press of the camera and closes
it with a second press.
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really well done.. you can see a plane come
in to land too!
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Great capture!
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.....Oooooohhh! .....Aaaaaaaahhh!
* * Follow the " topvaa " tag * *
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I like very much fantastic images. I like
very much this one!
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Hey -- GREAT photo... and THANK YOU for your
'how to' comments. Not everyone 'shares'
this info -- but it is a great attribute of
our fellow Flickrites! So, thanks for
sharing!
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Thanks, people. @Joe: I've never understood
why some wish to keep their techniques
secret. That said, what I've shared is
rather common information, available in the
D50 manual and a million other places. I'm
definitely not good enough to have any of
those special techniques/secrets, but if I
did, I'd be more than willing to share.
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Brilliant night shot!! Great work, Chris...
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Awesome capture and great colours! :)
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great colors here! you're a master at the
long exposure.
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Freakin A!!
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Ni-ice. This is one picture that really does
need to be viewed LARGE. And thanks for
sharing tips. Everyone benefits. We'll get
more beauties like this shot.
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Expect a little increase in views:
digg.com/odd_stuff/Fantastic_Statue_of_a_100_
Foot_Giant_E...
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For those who don't know, the statue is
called "The Awakening" It used to
be in Hanes Point in Washington, DC but was
recently moved to the new National Harbour
project in PG county, MD (about 5 miles
south). The airplane streaks in the
background you see are landing or taking off
from National Airport and the background city
lights are Alexandria, Va, and the Crystal
City (and possibly Rossyln) areas of
Arlington county.
BTW, this is a REALLY cool statue. I used
to go during Cherry Blossom time to see it
because you went down a cherry-blossom filled
street to get there. Kids can play in the
hand, overall it was a really cool statue and
I was sorry to see it moved.
One other thing is that both at Hanes point
and its new location, in case of flodding or
very high tides the statue will be partly
submerged in water. You should be able to get
a great shot at that time to.
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i remember many nights after buzz bringing
friends to hanes point and waiting for them
to sober up enough to realise we were sitting
on a statue of a giant man.
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congrats on the DIGG
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Cool shot!
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For some sense of scale...
www.flickr.com/photos/aparejador/2194473810/i
n/set-721576...
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love it, love dc at night
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que hermosa foto, muy muy linda!
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