Long exposures of cool building-things

[cocheese20]

Hi, these were taken at Gasworks park in Seattle Washington. This is some weird gas refinement equipment or something? Anyways, they're fun to photograph. Which one do you like the best? Since it gets dark at 4:30pm these days, I think I'll be doing quite a bit of night photography again.

1. Larger version Here (http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2039004945&context=set-72157594317282805&size=l)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2294/2039004945_45a4602040.jpg

2. Yeah, I know this is crooked, but I wasted all this time taking an exposure for the city in the bottom right, and blending it all together in PS. So if i straightened it out, I would lose all that stupid work. I need a level or something. Larger version Here (http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2039143857&size=l)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2336/2039143857_b08a6b9f17.jpg

3. Larger version Here. (http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2040031212&size=l)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2231/2040031212_9208b10838.jpg

4. Had to keep this one in color... I wish there was someone standing on the hill or something... Large version Here. (http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2039844620&size=l)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2153/2039844620_acc10f2115.jpg

[babyduckmonger]

I think #3 is very neat, and #4 reminds me of the XP wallpaper, only better. Nice work.

[Robert_Lay]

I like the lines in #2. It's so far out of whack that it appears intentional - so, it works!
Very nice tonality and very 3-dimensional.

Congratulations

[Zumba]

I like the lines in #2. It's so far out of whack that it appears intentional - so, it works!
Very nice tonality and very 3-dimensional.

Congratulations

I like too the lines in #2, I would like to see the color version.

[cocheese20]

Thanks for the comments.
The color versions for most of these don't look so awesome. The Skys look kind of cool, but the buildings don't. The exposures were so long that they basically look like poorly colored photos that were taken in the daytime.

[gherrry]

THOSE LOOK AWESOME. The first three made me think i was back in a nitemare... the the green grass was the resolution to my nitemare. YIKES

[ErinPtX]

Love the moody b&w. I took a look at your flickr account too - so cool. Sorry I don't have anything specific to add since I'm so new at this but wanted to say thanks for the inspiration. :-)

[dlw3]

Sell #4 to Bill.

[cocheese20]

Thanks again for the comments everybody... All of these are a mixture of a couple different exposures. One for the sky, buildings, and ground. I layer them in Photoshop and mask away the parts of each one I don't want showing... I've been taking night shots for awhile now, and they used to drive me crazy. I used to hate sitting there in the dark for a couple of minutes, and then when the photo was finally done, having it come out poorly. I think I've found that the key is consistency. I always shoot at iso 100 or 200, and keep my aperture at 5.6. Once you do them for awhile you can start predicting how long of an exposure you'll need.
Here's an attempt that I did last year around this time of the same subject. I hadn't figured out any of this stuff yet. It looks kind of primitive compared to these new ones, but hopefully I'll get better and next year I'll be able to say the same thing about the shots I'm doing now!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/325811286_a64a051a21.jpg

[ACEHOLE]

i like them all #1 my fav #4 looks like the desktop "Bliss" in windows XP

[screamoon]

how do you do such an effect on the sky with photoshop? #3

[cocheese20]

how do you do such an effect on the sky with photoshop? #3

Its not an effect. It's just a long exposure.... the clouds are moving though the frame.