Hong Kong Night Photos
Posted by SpikeFeb 18
Less than perfect but I think not too bad.
Driving home tonight, I realized that thanks to the factory closures in China for Chinese New Year, it was a pretty clear night, so I decided to seize the opportunity and grab some photos. These are all hand-held, as I didn’t have my tripod in the car. I’d like to go back to the same spots with my tripod to do slightly longer exposures at lower ISO settings. These are shot at 3200 and if I wasn’t so cold, I would have stayed longer and tried more combinations of settings. But now I know what I’ll do differently the next time I can get to these spots to shoot.
Bonus pic: there are what I’ve been told are feral cows in Sai Kung and I often see them during the day but very rarely at night. Driving up the hill to my village, I spotted this one just plunked down, happily chewing its cud and grabbed this shot.
2 comments
Comment by NK on February 18, 2010 at 9:50 am
I probably could have emailed this to you, but you should install the Lightbox (or perhaps it’s up to Lightbox 2) plugin for WordPress. It’s hard to explain what it does, but basically it opens the image in an overlay window (overlaid over the back of your blog content) and gives it a nice dark background to view it on. As a bonus, if you have more than one image in a post, the overlay has arrows which allow you to click onto the next photo.
I’ll email you a link to an example of it on my site,
Comment by Spike on February 18, 2010 at 10:30 am
Thanks. Actually I do have Lightbox installed and use it on the Photography page but not for regular posts. And I probably should start doing that.