Sydney At Night

[CJ_Photography]

hey guys just looking for some feedback on what i could do better next time p.s. sorry about the grain of the pic the iso was to high and my camera is crap :s

[neoHUNTER]

CJ, yah its a bit noisy on your image, whats your EXIF DATA for this, but the place has lot of potential.

[Laurenbiz]

Yes, please post the EXIF data in the critique forums.

[CaptainNH]

It's perhaps a bit strange that in 14 years of living in Sydney, I still have never taken a photograph of the Harbour Bridge. I think I need to add one to my collection.

Most of the nighttime Harbour Bridge shots I have seen tend to be beautifully crisp shots with vibrant colours reflected in the harbour, so your shot is a very pleasant change from those cliched shots.

I really like the graininess and the b&w and the vantage point - they all combine to make a unique image.

It reminds me a lot of an image by Bayliss and Holtermann that is on display at the State Library in Sydney at the moment, which was, in 1875, the World’s largest glass negative measuring 1.6 x 09m!

Originally Posted by State Library of NSW

This is the largest wet plate negative in the world, one of four made in 1875 by Charles Bayliss and Bernard Holtermann from a tower above Holtermann’s house in North Sydney. It is a view of the city across Lavender Bay.

For much of the nineteenth century, it was not possible to make photographic enlargements, so big photographs were printed from correspondingly large negatives. In this case, the ‘camera’ was actually a room 3 x 4 metres, with a huge lens replacing the window, allowing Bayliss and Holtermann to walk about and manipulate the glass negative from inside.

In the wet plate process, the negative was coated in the dark with a sticky collodion solution containing silver salts, and exposed and developed while still wet. If allowed to dry out, the emulsion no longer retained its light sensitivity. To complicate matters, the plates had to be manhandled 27 metres down from the tower to a room for processing. Each plate weighed around 23 kilograms, so the task was not easy.

http://www.onehundred.sl.nsw.gov.au/100-objects/Exhibit-050.aspx

In your image there is a dark hole in the bottom centre of shot (which I assume is Blues Point?), which, to me, detracts from the image. You would eliminate this by setting the "horizon", being the far shore of the harbour, lower in the shot.

And personally, given that I still get a buzz out of driving over the Harbour Bridge even after all these years, I would like to see more of the Coat Hanger in the shot.

TFS!