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London at night

I took this ones a couple of years ago. Night time city light are very difficult to photograph. There is an overall orange colour cast, a mix of different light sources, each with it colour temperature, and pictures can look quite weird initially. I tried here to experiment a bit with white balance adjustments and colour curves and this is the result. From that walk in central London is also this other picture, that somehow, I think it has a bit more natural look.

These days it’s been in the news something about how the orange light in a city like Los Angeles has been an important detail for portraying that city in a huge amount of movies along the years. It seems that they want to change the street lights and that will change completely how night-time photography in that city looks. There is an interesting post here about this.

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Omar Parada

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11 responses to “London at night”

  1. Morgan avatar
    Morgan

    Oh London, London, You are, You Know You are>… 🙂

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  2. Variety Of Life avatar
    Variety Of Life

    nice shots!

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    1. casagan avatar
      casagan

      Thanks!

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  3. Mark Simms avatar
    Mark Simms

    Good examples of low light images.

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    1. casagan avatar
      casagan

      Thanks Mark. They ended a bit noisy, but I liked the contrast and (sometimes weird) colour of them.

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      1. Mark Simms avatar
        Mark Simms

        Unless you’re using a tripod, and I’m guessing you weren’t for these, then a little noise is to be expected as I presume your ISO was quite high.

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        1. casagan avatar
          casagan

          Exactly. These ones were handheld.

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  4. itisnovember avatar
    itisnovember

    Great shots of London at night, very fancy! I hope I’ll find the time to fly there this year!

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    1. casagan avatar
      casagan

      London is great. If you like architecture photography you will have good time.

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  5. Life of the struggler avatar
    Life of the struggler

    Splendid pictures… Truly

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    1. casagan avatar
      casagan

      Thanks!

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