Last night's Christmas Tree lighting in Downtown Truckee, California was a lot of fun. It has been a while since I'd been to a tree lighting. The main street in Downtown Truckee was shut down and there was a very large crowd of people. Lots of the shops were open late and treats were being given out to attendees.
The vibe felt like it was straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting. Very warm smiles everywhere, and everyone was having a great time. Of course, I brought my camera and got a few photos of the tree right after it was lit up.
Shot with a Canon 5DS R and a 24-105mm lens. The ISO was 2500, the lens aperture was f/4.0, and it was a 1/30 of a second exposure. Shot handheld with no flash. Fortunately, the lens has nice image stabilization built into it so it was a sharp photo even though it was a somewhat longer exposure.
A lot of work was done to this image in Photoshop in order to get the most detail out of the shadow areas and sky. I also used Photoshop's newer AI noise reduction in order to get rid of most of the digital noise. The ISO 2500 setting can be very noisy with this camera the the AI noise reduction did an incredible job at cleaning up the noise. The image is not going up on my website, it probably would not look great when printed big. But I think it looks nice for blog posts and social media posts.
Truckee does a great job of decorating for the holidays. Here are a few more photos from previous years. I hope to get more similar images this year but I will have to wait until we get a decent amount of snow...
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There is less time left for this event and the way we see that people have already started decorating to make their homes look beautiful.
Perfectly edited pictures! Have you already started the pre-Christmas marathon?))
Thank you! Yes, Truckee starts a little early. Our town has a lot of ski resorts in the area and our local economy relies heavily on holiday tourism.
The photo is very beautiful with the cloudy blue sky and the very bright yellow tree. Night photos are always very difficult to take. Interesting Photoshop's AI feature, I'm interested, can I
Thank you! I've used the AI noise reduction a few times for difficult photos with settings that cause a lot of noise. It's impressive!
Really Heart touching shoots you have make. It seems like I'm seeing these views in reality instead of these photos. Almost each view is gorgeous but I love the sky view the most.
Is there snow also at road. I think there is .
A lot of appreciation for your awesome job.@scottshots
Thank you @sahilkhan5! Yes, there is snow on the roads. We got a little bit of snow last night and the roads were slick this morning. Once winter really starts, we should be getting tons of snow, it's a challenging but fun time of year.
Great looking start to the season. Pictures of lights are awesome especially with the blue background and through the snow.
It snowed a little bit last night! Glad you like the photos @steven-patrick, and hope you had a great weekend.
wow! you guys do not mess around when it comes to Christmas over there, those are some lovely decorations, and images you've got there, so wonderful.
Haha! Nope we do not. We rely heavily on tourism in this town so they go all-in. Glad you like the images!
Yeah tourism for any country is a great source of revenue provision, so great you guys embraced it , keep up the good work.
People are really anticipating Christmas
I can’t wait for this beautiful moment to come
I love Christmas so much
Nice! It's a fun time of year. And Truckee does a great job of making it feel like the town is straight out of a Christmas movie. Lots of photo opportunities...
Hi @scottshots I am happy to be a part of this community and hope to make many friends here. Now I start my new life after prison. I will be grateful for your support.
Glad your here @dewamke44! Life is a roller coaster, hope it goes well for you from here on out.
I do my best to make it go well, @scottshots but sometimes life is not fair, I continue to fight despite everything.
Magical. Hopefully you don’t get quite as much snow as last year…. That was ridiculous !
Right?! It was ridiculous, indeed. Some of the forecasts are calling for another big year. I love the snow, but I'm hoping for a light snow year...
#hive #posh
I really love the beauty of the lightening tree 🎄
It's always such a beautiful look!