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<blockquote data-quote="Essence of Imagery" data-source="post: 4039" data-attributes="member: 920">To answer your question, you really NEED to be standing in a location with as little lighting as possible to avoid light pollution on the foreground.&nbsp; The Bay Bridge was shot at around 11:00 p.m. in a grove of trees, with raccoons investigating why we were there.&nbsp; The motion of the cars should create the feeling of the city being &quot;alive&quot; - however if you REALLY want a city panoramic without that movement, one might suggest taking the shot at 4:00 a.m. in the morning - then overlaying it with the shot you took during the blue hour.&nbsp; I truly believe that if you're sincere about wanting to learn, then questions are the only way you're going to go about it.&nbsp; I was self-taught, and the learning curve cost me around 10,000 shutter actuations.&nbsp; Honestly, out of the first 10k images shot with my camera, I believe that possibly 50 are images I still use/like and are ones that I'd publish publicly.&nbsp; The rest is in learning, taking it out of &quot;P&quot;ansy mode and learning to use the &quot;M&quot;aster mode... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Essence of Imagery, post: 4039, member: 920"] To answer your question, you really NEED to be standing in a location with as little lighting as possible to avoid light pollution on the foreground. The Bay Bridge was shot at around 11:00 p.m. in a grove of trees, with raccoons investigating why we were there. The motion of the cars should create the feeling of the city being "alive" - however if you REALLY want a city panoramic without that movement, one might suggest taking the shot at 4:00 a.m. in the morning - then overlaying it with the shot you took during the blue hour. I truly believe that if you're sincere about wanting to learn, then questions are the only way you're going to go about it. I was self-taught, and the learning curve cost me around 10,000 shutter actuations. Honestly, out of the first 10k images shot with my camera, I believe that possibly 50 are images I still use/like and are ones that I'd publish publicly. The rest is in learning, taking it out of "P"ansy mode and learning to use the "M"aster mode... ;) [/QUOTE]

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