>>3081313I like them. The post processing feels a bit too muted in the colors and tones, and I generally try to avoid placing large distracting elements in the foreground of my shots like you have in these three, but other than that they're nice to look at. Keep shooting and practicing, and I'd suggest getting a tripod so you don't have you rest your camera on ledges and jersey barriers for your long exposure shots. I'm jealous you're going to get to shoot there for a year.
>>3081506Yeah, flickr. And I find it's best to ignore people like that. This board does seem to be quite a bit angstier than I remember though.
>>3081528Well, as you can see most of my night film shots were underexposed, so unless you want me to tell you what I did so you know what not to do, it'll probably do more harm than good. I can tell you a bit about my process though and what has worked for me before, and why it probably didn't work for me this time.
I use color correction filters when doing long exposure night city photography. I have an 80A, 80B, and 82C. The problem I had was metering with them. Last time I was there I was way more engaged in photography and had been shooting multiple times per week for years. To give you an idea of how much I shoot nowadays, the roll that was in my camera when I left on this trip was half-shot from 2 years ago. So I was a bit rusty. Generally they cut out between 2/3 and 1 1/3 stop of light. This is dependent on a few factors though, most of which I neglected to take into account this time around. I used to eye all my metering and it'd work out fine for me but not doing that for a few years apparently affects your accuracy quite a bit.
Anyway, they were mostly shot at around f/5.6 - f/8 and 5-10 seconds. In retrospect it should have been closer to 30 seconds. Or 15-20 with no filters. Portra loves being overexposed so there's a lot of leeway on the upper end of the exposure range and I should have taken advantage of that like I used to.
