Landscape Photographers – Watch Where You Put That Horizon (via Photofocus)

This can also apply to city scenes, if they are not level they can be slightly disturbing to the viewer. The viewer may not be able to say what bothers them but they will be uncomfortable about the image. This can be a subtle detail that many photographers forget.

It’s photo 101, but many landscape photographers are unaware of it. The horizon tends to look best when it doesn’t split the center of the image. Of course there are exceptions to every rule, but unless you can articulate with specificity why you want to do it differently, avoid puttin … Read More

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Night Photo as promised

Here is one to the night photos that I shot last night handheld.  The camera settings were 1/3 second at F10 ISO 3200.  I think it came out pretty good considering that it was a quick shot to see what would happen. I expect much better results from lower ISO, tripod mounting of the camera and a little research on night photography.

Night Photo of Reno, NV from Northeast of Downtown. Handheld

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Night photography

I am still exploring the abilities of my Pentax K-5 and did a couple of handheld night shots of downtown Reno from near TMCC.  The same general area as this image.

Reno skyline from the North

I will post one of them as soon as I get them into my laptop and check them out.  It looks good on the camera display, especially considering that it was taken without a tripod.

I will be going out in the next week or so at night with a tripod and explore just how well the camera will do with night-time shots.