We are going to Chicago said Mrs C. Why ever would we go there I said, New York is much better. You can imagine how condescending she was when the hurricane struck and even more so when President Obamah (from Chicago) won his second term. Despite my preconceptions and Mrs C's air of smugness for being right, we had a great week there. Weather was good, sights equally so, but best of all were the people - friendly, helpful, smiling and generally a pleasure to have a conversation with, on such varied topics as the King James Bible to Buckingham Palace.
Anyway, thank you Chicago, but the point of this is to show a night shot. Taken from the 65th floor and I broke two of my rules for this type of shot: first, I didn't take it at dusk, so that I got the indigo blue sky, second I couldn't take my tripod to the restaurant. Check out the ISO below and note that this is straight out of the camera, no noise reduction, sharpening, just a little colour correction and cropped for Photobucket.
1Dx + 24 - 70mm 1/30sec f2.8 ISO 12,800
Anyway, thank you Chicago, but the point of this is to show a night shot. Taken from the 65th floor and I broke two of my rules for this type of shot: first, I didn't take it at dusk, so that I got the indigo blue sky, second I couldn't take my tripod to the restaurant. Check out the ISO below and note that this is straight out of the camera, no noise reduction, sharpening, just a little colour correction and cropped for Photobucket.
1Dx + 24 - 70mm 1/30sec f2.8 ISO 12,800
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