June 28, 200717 yr That's the "Pittsburgh Festival of Lights"... which is running for a couple more weeks. The innovative lighting schemes are designed by French lighting artist Lucette de Rugy and projected on downtown buildings. http://www.duquesnelight.com/Special/FestivalOfLights/default.cfm
June 28, 200717 yr All I can say is wow.... those are AMAZING pictures....I have a question... are there any settings on your camera that you use to make the lighting stand out like that for the night shots???
June 28, 200717 yr Wow! Nothing like the view of Pittsburgh from Mt. Washington at night, spectacular! I remember going up there as a kid for the “Light Up Pittsburgh” nights. This was usually followed by a holiday shopping trip to Gimbels & Kaufmann’s.
June 28, 200717 yr btw, it appears some of these photos are a bit too wide for UO's format (this wasn't a problem over at SSP)... so you might need to go down to the bottom of the post and scroll for some of them (i know that's annoying)... but unfortunately I don't think you can tell which ones need scrolling... first and last ones do
June 28, 200717 yr All I can say is wow.... those are AMAZING pictures....I have a question... are there any settings on your camera that you use to make the lighting stand out like that for the night shots??? My camera has settings for "low light without flash" and "low light with flash"... My old camera didn't have "low light without flash"... so I was used to using a flash at night which makes pictures quite glittery and overbearingly bright... This time around I experimented... I took two photos of every downtown night shot (the skyline shots were exclusively without flash)... one with flash and one without... then I decided on which one looked better... most of them are without flash... but a few looked better with flash... a lot of depends on how much artificial light is already in the shot for example... without flash: with flash:
June 28, 200717 yr Nice shots! And as for the scrolling thing, it depends how large your monitor is. I don't need to scroll on mine ;). "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 29, 200717 yr All I can say is wow.... those are AMAZING pictures....I have a question... are there any settings on your camera that you use to make the lighting stand out like that for the night shots??? My camera has settings for "low light without flash" and "low light with flash"... My old camera didn't have "low light without flash"... so I was used to using a flash at night which makes pictures quite glittery and overbearingly bright... This time around I experimented... I took two photos of every downtown night shot (the skyline shots were exclusively without flash)... one with flash and one without... then I decided on which one looked better... most of them are without flash... but a few looked better with flash... a lot of depends on how much artificial light is already in the shot for example... without flash: with flash: wow... thats interesting...what kind of camera do u have because i am in the market for a camera that has those capabilities
July 2, 200717 yr I love downtown Pittsburgh. I am jealous of the geography, architecture, pocket green space, intact theatres, and the Point park. I was there on business about a month ago and saw a couple of the buildings with the projected art. Definitely something I wouldn't mind copying here in Cincinnati.
July 2, 200717 yr Yeah I think Pittsburgh is under rated. I sure didn't realize what a beautiful city it was and how in tact old structures are. I'm surprised Carnegie Mellon hasn't done for Pittsburgh what MIT has done for Boston and Stanford/Berkeley has done for the Bay area in the technology sector.
July 3, 200717 yr Yeah I think Pittsburgh is under rated. I sure didn't realize what a beautiful city it was and how in tact old structures are. I'm surprised Carnegie Mellon hasn't done for Pittsburgh what MIT has done for Boston and Stanford/Berkeley has done for the Bay area in the technology sector. Yeah...it's pretty great here!
July 4, 200717 yr wow... thats interesting...what kind of camera do u have because i am in the market for a camera that has those capabilities It's a Sony Cybershot DSC-H2 with a 12X optical zoom. Yeah...it's pretty great here! Welcome to the neighborhood, urbanpreppie! Yeah I think Pittsburgh is under rated. I sure didn't realize what a beautiful city it was and how in tact old structures are. I'm surprised Carnegie Mellon hasn't done for Pittsburgh what MIT has done for Boston and Stanford/Berkeley has done for the Bay area in the technology sector. CMU/Pitt is one of the country's top research nodes... but this region hasn't commercialized that research the way Boston and Silicon Valley have (for example, Lycos was founded at CMU in the early 90s but fled to Boston)... it's a very complex economic story that I won't get into. However, the tech climate is improving here... with Google, Apple, IBM, Seagate and other industry heavyweights opening locations here... drawn by CMU and Pitt... and more and more startups and spin-offs from the universities (http://www.clusty.com)... and increasing venture capital. Hopefully we can reach a critical mass soon. We seem to be getting more and more attention in the tech media as an important center (Wired's Top 10 Geek Cities, WSJ dubbing us Roboburgh due to our innovative robotics industry, etc.) Everyone else: Thanks for the overwhelming response! :)
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