Elph 880

Okay, I’ll admit it, I was slightly bored today in class.  So I got to thinking about the different modes on the elph and wondered if they had a portrait mode, a beach mode, a stiching mode and a sunset mode why didn’t they have a nighttime mode.  So I pull it out of my bag at lunch and lo-there it was Nighttime mode (no MypoicJoe, not Nightmare mode!)  So after a bite to eat with some old friends I had to walk off the Filet and so I wandered around the city along Atlantic Ave which allowed me to shoot my favorite Boston Landmark-the Boston Custom House.  I shot it from many sides, even getting the moon as it peaked out from the clouds in a few but none struck my fancy as much as this one:

As I wandered further I came across one of my other favorite winter landmarks-the walkway behind the Marriott Long Wharf that leads to the North End (must go to Mike’s and get rainbow cake with marzipan before I head home, if you’ve never been to Mike’s Pastry the next time you go to Boston it is a must-it’s always packed and for good reason, it is some of the best Italian cookies, canoli, pastry and marzipan to be found.  Anywhere)  As I was saying, the walkway is almost always lit up, but I guess this year it’s been so cold they haven’t wanted to take down the wreath:

Both of these were taken on Nighttime mode and I think it is a big improvement over the one of the Park Street Church from last night there is still appreciable noise but it was much more easily handled in photoshop.  The only processing I did other than using Noise Ninja was some exposure control to bump up the black and a bit of clarity increase (both done in LR2)