Boston Skyline Photos

It wasn't the clearest of days yesterday, but I still tried to get some shots of the skyline from Ward Hill in Andover yesterday.
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Looks like Prospect Hill Monument in Somerville.
 
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Usually you can see Avalon Exeter from this view lit up pretty well. Can't really see it in the last picture... I will say Back Bay has stepped up their lighting game over the past few years it's more visually pleasing than downtown say a couple buildings.

Liberty Mutual
Old Hancock
Prudential
111 Huntington Ave
(New Hancock has been lit more I feel recently)
The Clarendon
30 Dalton
Solid lighting

Anyone know if there's any lighting on four Seasons or too much speculation there for so early :)
 
jpdibenedetto said:
Usually you can see Avalon Exeter from this view lit up pretty well. Can't really see it in the last picture... I will say Back Bay has stepped up their lighting game over the past few years it's more visually pleasing than downtown say a couple buildings.

Liberty Mutual
Old Hancock
Prudential
111 Huntington Ave
(New Hancock has been lit more I feel recently)
The Clarendon
30 Dalton
Solid lighting

Anyone know if there's any lighting on four Seasons or too much speculation there for so early :)
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222 Berkeley needs to relight its top and the old Hancock needs to light itself up again
 
CSTH said:
Just for the record - this looks like the wynn casino land taken from the train.

(I sure hope those boys aren't fishing for dinner)
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Totally correct and it sure looks like dinner to me.
 
Found this photo on reddit.

Boston, Massachusetts. by matthew macpherson, on Flickr

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/5hqutg/i_finally_got_that_skyline_pic_with_police_cars/
In case anyone cares, here's the specs behind this shot. I had four things I wanted to achieve with this shot: (1) Sunset, (2) long exposure of cars, (3) Shoot through a chain link fence, (4) still capture of trains on both tracks with the trains' faces showing.

For the sunset, I visited the location three times before there was an interesting enough sunset for my standards (Dec 3rd).

For the long exposure of traffic, I really wanted the longest exposure I could do on my camera timer (30seconds), but since this overexposed everything else in the scene, I had to blend it with equally underexposed shots. I ended up shooting brackets of five.

For shooting through a chain link fence, I used the widest lens I own (f/1.4) which makes the chain essentially disappear, but leaves a very shallow plane of focus. To remedy this I took five shots focused in the near tracks, five shots focused on that middle ground bridge, and five shots focused on the sky. I then focus stacked the three matching exposures from each of the five sets, which left me with five relatively in focus exposure lengths.

For the trains, I really wanted them caught still (at 1/100th of a second) so I cranked the ISO way up. Probably spent 90 minutes at the site waiting for trains to come from both directions.

Blended it all, all work done in photoshop.

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**EDIT**: I DO sell prints (store) (I brought down the blacks and made sure the train wheels were showing as per others' comments.)
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