My House last night

Dave3222 wrote in post #17459437
I favor the first shot also. I think that the first image is closer to what your eyes saw that evening. Like others, I like the mood, almost like your standing there and looking up the drive. Nice capture.

Thanks very much Dave.

sundar wrote in post #17473450
Nice work.

Thanks!

davidfarina wrote in post #17473881
Wow nice house! Very athmospheric and peaceful. Nice image too! I like the first best as it looks cleaner. I think you raised the ISO for the second one too much could it be? Looks much noisier than your first one

I was shooting in manual bulb, and left the ISO the same, I think at 400 for all the shots I took. But I may have left the shutter open longer for the second one and created some longer exposure noise. Thanks for the kind comments, it's been a great house, I had it custom built in 2009 on my retirement.

Like the others, I prefer the first shot for much the same reasons.
Lovely house, the upstairs room appears to have great potential for many things! As you are living on the Wallace River, do you get some good shots of the river from that room?
One final question, I do not see a chimney or flue, do you not have a wood burner/ open fire in the house?

Ian Mackie wrote in post #17474331
Like the others, I prefer the first shot for much the same reasons.
Lovely house, the upstairs room appears to have great potential for many things! As you are living on the Wallace River, do you get some good shots of the river from that room?
One final question, I do not see a chimney or flue, do you not have a wood burner/ open fire in the house?

Thanks Ian. Yes, I do live on the Wallace River (hence my name) That upstairs room is my computer room/office. There's also a small outdoor balcony that you can get to from wither the computer room or from the guest bedroom, which face s south, toward my yard. And yes, I do get some good shots of the river from up there, mostly in winter, as there is a stand of big mature oak trees along the edge of the river that block the view somewhat during summer when they leaf out, and I am hesitant to cut any of them down, they are so big and scenic of themselves. I got some great shots of a sharp-shinned hawk a couple of weeks ago that was high in a tree, but from that upstairs room I was right at his level.

I don't have a wood-burning stove, as I didn't want the mess of wood storage indoors, so I had a modern-looking propane fireplace installed that looks perfect in the living room. It provides emergency heat in case the power goes out in a storm and the design suits the house. The plug on the fireplace is just for a blower, which wouldn't work in a power outage, but the fireplace still throws off a fair bit of heat.

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Very cozy!

nice captures on both #1 is just a tad bit more to my liking as well. you done good!!!

I like the shot, but I'm not a big fan of all the unnatural looking white balance colors coming off of different areas. I would try to make that a little more even in post.