Vancouver is plagued with too much rain throughout at least 8 months of the year but when the weather’s nice, it does have its charms. This was what it looked like last night, on the last evening of March. It was captured from the edge of the former 2010 Olympics Athletes’ Village. What you’re seeing is an HDR image that was rendered from 9 original source photos.
very nice Robert.
Vancouver, where you don’t tan, you rust!
I love Vancouver in the spring! (Granville South, West 4th Ave., Denman, Granville Island Public Market)…It’s a beautiful city if you circumvent the downtown eastside…
Nice sky, a bit cluttered, but nothing a D9 couldn’t cure.
Nice one Robert.
Did you bracket multiple exposures with a tripod and then photshop?
Or
Does your camera do it all and just save it as a JPEG.
(if so what camera did you use)
I used to play around with night shots outside using an open shutter on a tripod. With a continuously firing fill flash I would move around the subject, thereby giving me different illumination effects.
The pic has a bit of a washed out effect I wouldn’t expect with that back lighting, but that being said it did retain the detail that is usually lost with those shots.
Nice
I used my Nikon D7000 camera to capture the photos that produced this image. From the moment I bought it a few years ago, I’ve consistently only saved RAW files, what Nikon calls NEF files.
The D7000 has the capability to use bracketing in groups of 3 photos at a time. The sequence I use for such a trio is: 1) Normal 2) -2.0 EF 3) +2.0 EF. The aperture remains the same and only the shutter speed is changed.
For this particular image, the camera was sitting on a tripod. I adjusted the base shutter speed to capture the 3 sets of 3 shots each.
Back home, the photos were loaded into Adobe Lightroom 5.3. I then selected the 9 photos in it and exported them to Nik Software’s HDR Efex Pro 2.0.
The HDR effect was very subtle compared to what’s possible with the software.
My wife and I particularly like the west end of Vancouver. We stay at the old Sylvia Hotel and from there we can enjoy merely by walking virtually all the best that downtown has to offer. We also bring some money with. The year before we bought a vehicle in Vancouver and drove it home to Edmonton.
Thanks Robert
Beautiful job capturing that image, Robert.
I enjoyed the same sunset from Capitol Hill in Bby last night.
Har….now it is possible for the camera to capture what the eye thought it saw.
Nice work with the HDR Robert. I like the light touch, just enough to bring out the details in the buildings while retaining the beautiful colours in the sunset. Most people are tempted to over-do the HDR effect. This is just right!
Excellent HDR work. Royce Howland would be proud. 😉
Vancouver is the only place I know where the swimming pool lifeguards wear parkas.
Ah Vancouver. Grew up around the Kerrisdale area. Enjoyed looking at the North Shore mountains and seeing a dust of snow on it. When it was sunny, Vancouver is/was the most beautiful city in the world.
Now? crowded, smoggy, and in the summer, burnt grass.
But I still enjoying going back to visit and the air smelling of wet douglas cedar trees.
Not a panhandler in site! Amazing rare photograph!