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Critiquing the first night shots

Critiquing the first night shots

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Critiquing the first night shots

- All right, well we're back from the Brooklyn Bridge Park where we had this incredible view of the Manhattan skyline. So let's take a look at some of the shots that I got from this. Now, I was on a tripod. I wanted to be on a tripod. I wanted super sharp images. Noise isn't an issue because I shot at 64 ISO. I went to the sweet spot, which is the lowest ISO, whatever your digital camera is that will give you the maximum dynamic range. I didn't mind doing a longer exposure, and I actually, as far as noise was concerned, there is a kind of a noise that you can get with long exposures, but I used long exposure noise reduction. A lot of cameras give you that option when you're doing exposures longer than one second, and I took advantage of that. It did double my exposure, but it got rid of any noise inherent with those long exposures. So, let's take a look at some of the images. The first one, you got to start somewhere. You've got these poles in the foreground, which I think kind of add…

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