Baton Rouge at night

[theantiquetiger]

Went and did some more night shooting tonight. How do I avoid the star burst from street lights? I do have a filter in this lens.

Zippy's Illegal Burrito

zippys by Theantiquetiger, on Flickr

LSU War Memorial Tower

lsu tower by Theantiquetiger, on Flickr

Louie's Cafe

louies cafe by Theantiquetiger, on Flickr

The Chimes & Varsity Theater

chimes by Theantiquetiger, on Flickr

Faux HDR of The Chimes

chimes hdr by Theantiquetiger, on Flickr

World Famous LSU Tiger Stadium

tiger stadium by Theantiquetiger, on Flickr

[Realist]

To avoid the stars you need to open up your aperature. The starburst are caused by your aperature blades when they're closed down to usually f16 or smaller. Also you have 14 point stars meaning you have 7 aperature blades, I think 6 gets you 6 point and 8 gets you 8 point stars, not sure. Cool shots though, and I usually don't mind the starburst, sometimes they add to the picture.

[Marko]

Fun play.
YUp Realist is correct - remove the filter (UV I'm guessing) as well.

[theantiquetiger]

Couple images added to original post

[Yisehaq]

When I saw your first photo I thought you did it for the second level assignment.. These are nice. BTW, how did you manage to make the sky so Black? No stars, street light and other interferences? Or is that part of your post processing?

[theantiquetiger]

When I saw your first photo I thought you did it for the second level assignment.. These are nice. BTW, how did you manage to make the sky so Black? No stars, street light and other interferences? Or is that part of your post processing?

These were shot in the city, so the stars were not very visible (I did try to capture the 1/4 moon that night in the Tower shot, but it was blown out). I just simply used the adjustment brush and turn down the exposure and paint the sky about 5 times to rid it of any noise, especially the ones with neon lights, they had a lot of color noise.

Actually, in the shot of The Chimes, the pole for the traffic signal continued to near the top of the frame and had two street lights on top. I did a spot clone to remove it and just made it look like it ended where it did.

(I actually didn't think about the monthly assignment)