University of New South Wales at night

Posted by Andrew Gould (Sydney, Australia) on 2 October 2008 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

I took this last week on a late afternoon walk around the campus. For some reason, they've recently covered the lights on either side of this main walkway with red plastic, so this is actually how it looks after dark. You'll note the slow shutter speed, made possible by my Sigma zoom, that has an image stabilizer.

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Comments (14)

sherri from Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

This is beautiful and quite amazing.

2 Oct 2008 5:09am

dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, CA, United States

wow -- i completely agree! this is simply magical! this picture speak more of a time, a place and a feeling, then of any sort of subject matter... wow! excellently done Andrew! bravo! p.s. - we still need to have that google chat! ;)

2 Oct 2008 6:40am

dobbino from Cape Town, South Africa

Fantastic capture, Andrew - colours are amazing! Looks like the folk on the left enjoyed the shot too!

2 Oct 2008 7:42am

Emily Ng from Adelaide, Australia

the red and the beauitful tone of blue in the sky + perspective makes this an interesting photo =)

2 Oct 2008 9:10am

JJ from Jersey City, United States

such amazing colors from the reds on ground level to the beautiful blue sky

2 Oct 2008 9:21am

Kylie Greenan from Richmond, Australia

Thank God for image stabilizer ;o)... the lights look beautiful here as do the people in motion, a fine image.

2 Oct 2008 9:24am

Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada

Are they trying to outspook the Red Light district? incredible isn't it...great photo and story :)

2 Oct 2008 12:01pm

Graham Russon from Cape Town, South Africa

Nice shot, like the colours and tones.

2 Oct 2008 8:34pm

elmenut from Salt, Spain

no puedo definir con palabras los fantásticos colores y tonos de esta imagen.
sin dejar de lado la composición...
por cierto , como tenias el "white balance" para conseguir esta impressionante luz magenta?
oye , el objetivo cumple con su cometido en el aspecto de estabilización,pero ¿ has notado algun problema con el autofocus ?
ya te contaré por qué te hago esta pregunta,pero prefiero no darte pistas...

2 Oct 2008 10:55pm

@elmenut: Gracias por el comentario. Me alegra que te guste.

Como saco todo en RAW, siempre tengo el balance de blancos en automatico. Luego, en Adobe RAW, si es necesario hago algunos ajustes, aunque en este caso, no cambié nada. El efect se debe al color del plástico rojo que tienen alrededor de las luces.

Había leído algo sobre las quejas de algunos dueños de este lente o del modelo anterior sin estabilización, (ahora no me acuerdo qual era). Por lo general, no tengo ningún problema con el autoenfoque. Puede ser que de vez en cuando no resulte bien por algún avería de su sistema de autofoco, o capáz que se deba a un error de mi parte.

El lente dar resultados bastante nítidas, especialament en sus puntos extremos de gran angular y telefoto. Un zoom alta calidad de menor rango podría ser más nítido, pero este zoom me conviene mucho para el tipo de fotografía que hago.

If any non Spanish speakers are wondering what this is about, I've answered saying that the white balance was on auto as usual for my RAW shots, and no changes were made to that in processing, and that my lens does focus very well almost all the time, despite some claims from other users that I've seen on the Internet, that this lens -- or was it the previous model without autofocus? -- does not focus well a lot of the time.