Mc Donald's neon

[blumyrose]

Hello Everybody!
I did a picture of the Mc Donald's neon. I would like to know what you think about it. Okay, okay, it's not very sharp.But do you think it would bring something if we could really distinguish the letters from "Mc Donald's"? The problem is that I tried several settings and even post-production modifications but I didn't achieve to make it less bright.



The settings were:
F3,5
focal length 28,0mm
shutter speed 1/13s
no exposure correction
Iso 400.

Thanks in advance for your help!!

Cheers,
Blumyrose

[navcom]

Did you use a tripod? Without a tripod at night, you will never get a photo very sharp. Also, you are using a very wide aperture, which means you will have very little depth of field. Try using a tripod and setting aperture around f/8 or so. That will get the sharpness under control.

As for brightness, this is a good example of high dynamic range....very huge range between the lightest and darkest points in your image. All camera's are limited in their dynamic range. In your case, the best way to counter it is to take three or more images...one exposed for the bright, one exposed for the dark, and one somewhere inbetween...and then combine them in post processing to end up with something with a higher dynamic range. Do a search for "HDR". You'll get tons of info.

Hope that helps!

[blumyrose]

Thanks a lot for all your good advice... I'll try these and I'll let you know!!

[howbigis1gb]

The tubelight distracts from an otherwise interesting shot. Maybe try removing it in post production. Or just blocking that part of the image with cardboard or something while taking the shot. Nice shot otherwise

[nathanbarlow]

interesting take.

It looks very "graphic art" to me, which really portrays the McD's image (kiddies, fun, bright, etc)

Reckon the crop on the left looks 'accidental', so either crop more out to make it deliberate, or shoot wider (is this the original crop?)

[CaptainNH]

The colours and light are great. I agree with comments about the crop - a couple of steps to the left might have improved that. I think I'd just clone out the street lamp.