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    Went out tonight to practice my night photography a bit (since 99% of them come out guff). The cloudy sky didn't help as everything got a "nice" glowing orange background, but I got a couple of reasonable shots:


    Canon EOS 350D, 90mm, f/4, 3.2s, ISO 400


    Canon EOS 350D, 75mm, f/4.5, 1/3s, ISO 1600

    Anyone recognise the location?
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    Runcorn-Widnes Bridge and Elsemere Port are my guesses!

    If you shoot RAW, you can reduce the orange glow later in Photoshop. Alternatively you can try altering the white balance settings on the camera at the time of taking the shots.

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    Butcher mate, fantastic shots.

    Is the first one taken from the West Bank, looking east? If so, where did you take it from? Never seen one from that angle before. Agree with Snappel about the second pic that it could be Ellesmere Port, but my money's on Runcorn as well.

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    After asking the audience and phoning a friend, I'm going for Snappel's opinion about the location of the second pic

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    Very nice Butcher.

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    Quote Originally Posted by snappel View Post
    Runcorn-Widnes Bridge and Elsemere Port are my guesses!

    If you shoot RAW, you can reduce the orange glow later in Photoshop. Alternatively you can try altering the white balance settings on the camera at the time of taking the shots.
    First one is obviously Runcorn Bridge yes. Second is Weston Point actually. Both taken from the same vantage point on the west bank near Hale.
    If this link works it should take you to the location:
    http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=...1dcf8ba55566f9
    Be warned it's down a very rough dirt track (I almost grounded my car a couple of times I'm sure), though you could park a bit further back and walk.

    They're shot RAW, I did some tweaking of the white balance, but still a fair amount of orange there. Reckon I could clean them up even more?


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    At first guess I would of said taken from Pickerings Pasture Nature Park.
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    Second picture looks like Castner Kellner works what use to be ICI.

    Looking at the map taken from between Hale Village and Pickering Pastures
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    Here is a couple of road ones.





    ps nice shots butcher
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    Great shots, like the 2nd one really good is that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Butcher View Post

    They're shot RAW, I did some tweaking of the white balance, but still a fair amount of orange there. Reckon I could clean them up even more?

    yer you could try to take some more of the orange away if you open them in paint shop pro X or a similar program and adjust useing the Adjust Colour Red/Green/Blue option and try takeing some of the red away.

    i just had a go and came up with this:


    i dont know if it's a bit darker than youd be after.
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    On the dark side yeah.

    Had a bit of a play, took a lot of the orange out but the bridge is kinda blue now. Not sure if I like it or not:

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    Different
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