Friday, June 3, 2011

Bright lights, big city.


Photo tip using time exposure.  Brace your camera on something, anything, even if it is moving also.  Here the camera was resting on the railing of our boat as the one on the right was passing.  Photo taken on the Huangpu River of The Bund.  Exposure is automatic at f/3.5, 1/10 sec at ISO 800.    The Shanghai Bund has dozens of historical buildings that once housed numerous banks and trading houses from the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Italy, Russia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as the consulates of Russia and Britain, a newspaper, the Shanghai Club and the Masonic Club. The Bund lies north of the old, walled city of Shanghai. This was initially a British settlement; later the British and American settlements were combined in the International Settlement. A building boom at the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th century led to the Bund becoming a major financial hub of East Asia. The former French Bund, east of the walled city was formerly more a working harbour side.

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