Mountain night pictures

[Orpheuss]

Hello,

For this post is more like "which one is better?". I have two fotos taken in 2 consecutive nights, in the same spor; during the day between it rained so the second one has no snow in the foreground. I have reason to like both, but if I could combine them into a mega picture, it would be great...

This is the second one, I like it better for the clouds, but the foreground disappoints me because is a little too dark. What did I do wrong in this one? I tried to correctly expose it but I took as reference the lights in the background, because I was afraid that otherwise I will overexpose them



The first one, chronologically, is here:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2802/...c014f3f8_o.jpg

[windrider86]

Are you asking on how to combine them? I too like the first one better. Look at the exif information on the first photo and compare it to the second and that will tell you the differences betwen the two

[eiverson]

I like the first one much better. With the snow and the foreground, the city lights look like "part of the magic." Without that, the city lights are just light pollution. I would also fix the perspective to give a level, straight horizon, and maybe selectively darken the one light green branch cropping up in the foreground. *

[Orpheuss]

Still not uset with this.... I forgot again about EXIF info:

So, for the snowy one:
f4.2
Speed 10 s
focal length 30 mm
ISO 800

The second one (chronologically)
f4.0
s 30 s
focal length 26 mm

eiverson, agree with the branch, it bugs me, just didn't know what to do with it. Darkening is a good ideea, thanks.

windrider86, I wanted to say that I like something from each one and if I could combine those characteristics I like maybe would look near perfection But sadly that cannot be done, the moment is gone.

[Sistereinstein]

oh, but the snow is such a nice touch! I like the one posted above better, because of the contrasts and the clouds.