Dowtown Las Vegas

took several hand held snapshots last night: Thanks for looking and C&C.

Very nice for hand helds, Tony! What camera and what settings? Must be pretty high ISO and I do not see much noise.
For #1 I would prefer a closer crop with just the glass and arrow. The rest is distracting and irrelevant.

Thanks for looking and the nice comments
First Photo I wanted to show how deserted the place is , despite the incentives placed by the city govt to devlop the area: I post processed with photo shop element
info
File Name IMG_1388.JPG
Camera Model Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Firmware Firmware Version 1.1.0
Shooting Date/Time 1/14/2010 8:21:55 PM
Owner's Name
Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/40
Av( Aperture Value ) 8.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
Exposure Compensation -1 1/3
ISO Speed 1600
Auto ISO Speed OFF
Lens EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Focal Length 40.0mm
Image Size 5616x3744
Image Quality Fine
Flash Off
FE lock OFF
White Balance Mode Auto
AF Mode One-Shot AF
Picture Style Standardwhich is

second photo data:
File Name IMG_1396.JPG
Camera Model Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Firmware Firmware Version 1.1.0
Shooting Date/Time 1/14/2010 8:29:38 PM
Owner's Name
Shooting Mode Manual Exposure
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/60
Av( Aperture Value ) 5.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed 2000
Auto ISO Speed OFF
Lens EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Focal Length 24.0mm
Image Size 5616x3744
Image Quality Fine
Flash Off
FE lock OFF
White Balance Mode Auto
AF Mode One-Shot AF
Picture Style Standard

Just wondering why you had exposure compensation set in #1. May be forgot to switch it of...???

Good setting albeit that with a tripod you would have had some fexibility. Looking at #1 again I notice that probably the rings of light on the cocktail glass are "moving" (or alternating) . They are not all on. With a longer exposure time and a tripod you would have caught that and it would have made the shot more complete.

But again very nice shots, both. I would love to have a go at Las Vegas (not the gambling but all the photo opportunities....)

ya, I also noticed the exposure compensation, I forgot about it yes I had other shots of the cocktails glass with more colors, good catch. Night shots are always good here in Las Vegas, but I have to try day shots, another good one is the air show, this is the home city of the US Air Force Thunderbirds and we have a good 3 day shows in Nov and I even had a chance to watch a special VIP show that placed us really at the best place to shoot. On Sunday the meet up group is meeting at the new City Center, an $8 Billion mega structure..cheers