Thanks everybody for your kind comments!
It really is kinda therapeutic to wander the riversides after day's work, just enjoying the scenery and thinking of nothing except composition and duration of exposures
All of these images are composites, panos made from 2 (the last one) to even 8 (#5 for example) and ranging from 4 up to 30 seconds. All shot at f8 to have sufficient DOF and detail.
I actually prefer shooting at sundown (again the last one) as it is gives the results richer in color and plays along nicely on deep blue sky and warm city lights that start to emerge. But I am rarely free at these moments and usually forced to work later in pitch black. To remedy this I usually push the parts of images to pure black in order to keep the highlights (#4 and #5 being the typical examples).
I shoot and stitch the images manually, convert them from RAW to my taste and then crop to (my now standard "panovision") 2:1 or 3:1 ratio. Then molest it a (fair) bit in PP to enforce the mood I'm after (#4 is pretty much as it was out of camera with just a bit of contrast added, but #1 I deliberately pushed towards violet as I feel it enhanced the atmosphere of the shot).
And that's about it. It's not like I can say a lot as I don't really know what I'm doing - just exploring and having fun along the way
Sometimes I get a keeper (like these featured in this thread), many times I delete the files after seeing them on computer screen as it turns out I missed the balance of composition while shooting as I didn't see some cables or other parts in the dark...
Special thanks to Jock for participating - feel free to do the same. Maybe I just failed to find it, but I don't think we have a dedicated night photography thread. If that is the case, this could be the start of one
