Nashville at Night

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Huntsville, AL
Name
Jason
I posted this on Mu-43.com - Micro Four Thirds User Group - Micro 4/3 Photography News, Discussion, and Rumors as well.

So I finally got around to processing a bunch of night pictures I took while in Nashville. Some are with the 14-42 kit lens and others are with the panasonic 20mm on the E-PL2. Heavy PP on most of these. CC as always.

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Nice shots, Jason. One of my favorite cities I've ever been. Your "heavy PP" looks like SOOC to me. we all clearly have different definitions of heavy.

Some of the shots here are so heavily processed that they look more like paintings to me than photographs (which I have to assume is intentional, and it's not a knock). These are nowhere near that.
 
Nice shots, Jason. One of my favorite cities I've ever been. Your "heavy PP" looks like SOOC to me. we all clearly have different definitions of heavy.

Thanks Luke.

But isn't that the trick, though, to make them look OOC?? LOL. The two cityscape shots and bridge were stacked exposures. I wish my E-PL2 had that much dynamic range. The others had some perspective correction, noise reduction, and cropping thrown in.
 
Some of the shots here are so heavily processed that they look more like paintings to me than photographs (which I have to assume is intentional, and it's not a knock). These are nowhere near that.

Could you be more specific? The only shot I think I need to still work on is the 3rd. It does look a tad painterly. Some of that is due to that it was a longish exposure. The issue I have with doing night shots is that if I expose for the buildings, the lighted signs and lights get blown out. If I expose for the signs, the buildings are dark. This is 3 stacked 0, +2, and -2 EV shots.

To maybe answer your question, I wasn't trying to be painterly with these images. Only 3 of these images were stacked. The rest were OOC with some cropping, perspective correction, and noise reduction. I didn't even play with the colors or curves because they were pretty spot on OOC. Any suggestions on how to make them not look painterly?
 
Thanks everyone. Just a few more:






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Kinda noisy(ISO 1600), but I like it. I may make it B&W. The state Capitol building is up to the back with the purple lighting.



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