a shot across the strip into Rio and Palm hotels

shot from the Bellagio tram station into the other side of the strip:

What did you shoot this with? Is this one shot or a pano?

one shot from the tram station at Bellagio, with my 5D M2 and kit lens, hand held at dark twilight..@iso 3200 more below:
Camera Model Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Firmware Firmware Version 1.1.0
Shooting Date/Time 1/23/2010 5:18:50 PM
Owner's Name
Shooting Mode Manual Exposure
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/15
Av( Aperture Value ) 7.1
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed 3200
Auto ISO Speed OFF
Lens EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Focal Length 58.0mm
Image Size 5616x3744
Image Quality Fine
Flash Off
FE lock OFF
White Balance Mode Auto
AF Mode One-Shot AF
Picture Style Standard

It doesn't do too much for me, honestly. The sky is rather dull and there is a whole lot of it.

Looks a bit blown out to me. Anyway to shoot this a bit lower, with less sky maybe?

BTW>> Is that snow on Mt. Charleston?

Todd Lambert wrote in post #9472130
It doesn't do too much for me, honestly. The sky is rather dull and there is a whole lot of it.

Looks a bit blown out to me. Anyway to shoot this a bit lower, with less sky maybe?

BTW>> Is that snow on Mt. Charleston?

yes, I had to blow it up, taken at dark almost 7 pm, I just wanted to get as bright as I can, I liked the large sky because I had to cropped part of the foreground, the mountain is towards red rock, closer to Las Vegas.

here is a panoramic photostitch of the red rock canyon, on the other side of the hills on the above photo; not often do we see this much snow here:

wow... that is a lot of snow for the middle of the desert! I like that pano a lot.

tonyniev wrote in post #9472282
yes, I had to blow it up, taken at dark almost 7 pm, I just wanted to get as bright as I can, I liked the large sky because I had to cropped part of the foreground, the mountain is towards red rock, closer to Las Vegas.

Next time you get a chance, shoot some long exposures around that time after the sun goes down just when it is about to get dark. You will get some amazing "blue hour" photos of vegas and the skyline.

Why is the image dominated by empty sky? Seems like an odd way to compose this shot. You can't even crop it all out because there is so little of the city to help ground the image.

Agree about the odd crops? The second pano looks much more promising,.