Some night shots with the Canon G11

January 14, 2010 Photography 9 comments

I really love this camera It’s versatile, small, it has a good quality and a full manual control.

I was riding my bike all around Tokyo, until Odaiba. In these days the weather is really cold here but the air is clean and there is no humidity at all. Perfect for night long exposure shots.
The main problem is to find a place with no vibrations. I didn’t have a tripod this time, but even with that it’s really hard to have a perfectly sharp image. The main reason is because Tokyo is a city with hundreds of subterranean trains, it’s in a seismic country and has a huge amount of traffic. It’s almost impossible to have a vibration zero zone.
The best place is in the top of a big building that absorbs almost all vibrations, and it’s specially made to resist earthquakes, so minimum earth movements remain almost unnoticed.

This place is near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. I just stopped with my bike and took this pic.
The water gets no replacement… so I really don’t want to imagine to dive into it…

View from one of the bridges that connects Tokyo to Odaiba (an artificial zone made with recycled trash).

Cropped version :)

I like to desaturate certain zones of a photograph to express the feelings representing the desaturated and the colored zone. I didn’t want to continue because I already ride too many up and down bridges after a long day riding my bicycle.

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WOW :O
Beautiful pictures you got there..
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WOW :O
Beautiful pictures you got there..
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@Nipasir Thanks!! :)
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@Nipasir Thanks!! :)
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Looking at this pictures, and taking a quick look at your review of the Canon camera I’ve been thinking if it could fit better my profile than a pentax k-x-like one. What do you think is better for a newbie: a low profile reflex or a high compact camera like this one… Cause I’m planing to buy one camera in my trip to Japan this year. The difference seems to be about 50€ (not very much, I think). Well, I have a lot of time till then to think about it. By the way, I LOVE the first one.
http://twitter.com/adrian_alonsov Aalova

Looking at this pictures, and taking a quick look at your review of the Canon camera I’ve been thinking if it could fit better my profile than a pentax k-x-like one. What do you think is better for a newbie: a low profile reflex or a high compact camera like this one… Cause I’m planing to buy one camera in my trip to Japan this year. The difference seems to be about 50€ (not very much, I think). Well, I have a lot of time till then to think about it. By the way, I LOVE the first one.
http://www.zuco.org/ zuco

@Aalova thanks!
Well for a newbie I prefer a reflex, a cheap one but always a reflex. The Pentax K-X is perfect for this purpose. The reason is simple. If you want to learn you also want to explore. That means that you need something that will let you play and experiment. A compact camera will always put more limitations than a reflex one.
To learn you need to understand the difference between lenses, the depth of field, lights and many more things.

If you just want a camera easy to use and ready for almost any environment the G11 is the perfect friend, but it won’t let you experiment and learn as a reflex.
http://www.zuco.org zuco

@Aalova thanks!
Well for a newbie I prefer a reflex, a cheap one but always a reflex. The Pentax K-X is perfect for this purpose. The reason is simple. If you want to learn you also want to explore. That means that you need something that will let you play and experiment. A compact camera will always put more limitations than a reflex one.
To learn you need to understand the difference between lenses, the depth of field, lights and many more things.

If you just want a camera easy to use and ready for almost any environment the G11 is the perfect friend, but it won’t let you experiment and learn as a reflex.
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it's excellent photo!! so impresive..I also one of the owner G11 almost 3 weeks bought..still newbie and still on learning process. Is this original pic? or it has been edited?