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Uploaded: 08/12/11 12:54 AM GMT
Melbourne Night Canyon
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One of the last images you will see from my little Samsung, sadly it's got dirt on an interior glass surface, no idea how it got there but every image has a huge great splotch smack in the centre of it. Not tolerable for such a cheap camera. Have to say though, the little Samsung was a great little image taking tool, I got a lot of camera for $100. This shot is a good example of what it could do, a night time shot without a tripod, just a braced against a glass against a window using it's own "night-time" mode. You know, reviews of these cheap little compact cameras always come down hard on their image quality, as if they "should" be capable of vastly superior image quality. Cheap cameras have always had cheap image quality because they always have cheap glass. But an image is not a pixel or the sharpness of a contour or the perfection of every detail, it's the overall impact, the gestalt, that matters and my little Samsung was bloody good at capturing the gestalt.

Enjoy.

Mikel.

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::Inkeri
08/12/11 1:11 PM GMT
Oooh,love this Beautiful night photo,Mikel.I live on the countryside,and love the nature.But city and city night fascinate me.
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::LynEve
08/12/11 3:18 PM GMT
Great night shot Mikel!
The talent behind the camera counts as well :)
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My thanks to all who leave comments for my work and to those of you who like one enough to make it a favourite. To touch just one person that way makes each image worthwhile. . . . . . . . . .. . . . "The question is not what you look at, but what you see" ~ Marcel Proust . . . . The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." ~ Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
.Tedi
08/12/11 4:16 PM GMT
Very good photo, interesting title, too. I love this night shot.
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::luckyshot
08/12/11 4:41 PM GMT
Mikel - The little Samsung served you well. So did the glass that you and the camera were leaning on. The results would have been much different had the glass not remained stationary. :-) Thad
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If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine
::vangoughs
08/12/11 7:54 PM GMT
Oh Yeah this is a beauty!!!
The maker of this camera should be proud of what you got here!!
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.Nikoneer68
08/13/11 1:15 AM GMT
Really amazing and stunning photograph.
Thanks for sharing.
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.icedancer
08/13/11 3:45 AM GMT
Lovely night shot of the city between those tall building
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.palral
08/14/11 4:27 AM GMT
Mikel...Your narratives are a profound combination of lyrical prose with a poetic ambiance. If not for that crazy Australian accent, I might be able to understand what you're saying. :-)

I started with a $90 Olympus and managed to get some great shots with the little bugger. I dropped it one time too many or I might still be using it. I've seen images on Caedes and elsewhere that were taken with $10,000 worth of equipment that weren't half as good as this glorious night time scene. This is a seriously wondrous shot.

Roger

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.JQ
08/16/11 4:59 PM GMT
i think its pretty neat too, did a great job, not sure if using a more expensive camera would have achieved that much better results, i have a crappy point and shoot, i hate everything it takes, but, for dark shots, it actually takes some stuff that is pretty ok.
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