Skyline Sunset from the Boardwalk – Austin, Texas
Austin recently opened a boardwalk of sorts. It floats above the river and forms an extension to the hike and bike trail that graces downtown. What’s good for the runners and bikers are also great for photographers. The architects thoughtfully created several areas that jut out, away from the traffic. Perfect for placing tripods.
My friends, Alex and Rusty invited me downtown to shoot the growing skyline. It’s a new vantage point that I’ve never seen. I thought it might be fun to shoot it with my old and new Olympus cameras, the 11-year-old E-1 DSLR and my HDR mirrorless workhorse, the E-PM2.
I’ve talked a bunch about my new-found fondness for the ancient 5mp Kodak CCD. It has a color that’s different from modern CMOS. I’ve discovered that for longer exposures, even as short as 5 seconds, I would get hot pixels. My guess is that the heat in Texas adversely affects the CCD — I read that heat tends make them noisy.
I shot the first 2 with the E-M1. The next two are HDRs with the E-PM2. Once it got dark, I put away the old DSLR — I knew the images wouldn’t satisfy — the modern mirrorless took over. I zoomed out as night progressed. From a 52mm equivalent to 34mm, to 28mm and finally to 22mm.
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What a difference on each shot! Very nice. 🙂
Thank you, Irene.
Wooow very very cool 😀
one more comment… I can’t stop looking at those photos 0_0
Well, thank you. Blue hour is great, isn’t it…
Great colors and super reflections, that first one is my favorite, well done
Thank you, Michael.
Gotta love the PM-2. I have a pair of them and when I’m serious about shooting, they are my go-to cameras. Add the P-3 which is no slouch. Great shots. I love night shooting. Wish I had more opportunities to do it, but there’s nothing to shoot at night around here … so on the rare occasion when I’m in Boston or Worcester I night, I take a LOT of pictures 🙂 Yours are luscious!
The OM-Ds get all the notoriety but the image quality of the E-PM2 is exactly the same. It does a great job.
Love, love, love the night shots.