Shutter Speed
Brilliant. A simple word says it all. This is how I describe the cityscape view at night in Hakodate, Japan. Fortunately, with a steady tripod and my Nikon D7000 hooked up with Nikkor 10-24mm ultra wide angle lens, I managed to captured it at a perfect timing, just before the fog and after the rain, and at the perfect location, on the top of Mount Hakodate. What makes this one of the best city view in Japan, apart from the attractive lighting at night, is the location from where we are looking over, the Mount Hakodate.
Some EXIF info: Shot in Aperture Priority Auto mode, with Shutter speed 4 Sec and Aperture f5.0. Focus distance was set to 18mm. ISO 100. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and -1/3 EV exposure being compensated with Matrix metering.
Mount Hakodate (函館山) is the highest point in Hakodate, measuring 334m high. Due to its geographical location at the Southern tip of the city , it gives us the best height and position to view the whole city, nothing but the city of Hakodate in Hokkaido, Japan.
I should have set a smaller Aperture such as F9 or F11 but huge crowds on top of the observation deck made it impossible to capture a sharp image. So I opted for a much faster shutter speed. blessing in disguise, the result came out was not too bad at all. I love it! 
– Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo guide to Japan.
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Another snapshot on The Forbidden City of Beijing, China. I’ve posted some photos of it before, but this time we had a little Chinese lady dressed up like a princess to the Qing dynasty of ancient China as our main character!
Some EXIF info: Photo taken with my Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 10-24mm Ultra Wide Angle lens. Shot in Program Auto mode, with Shutter speed 1/100 Sec and Aperture f5.0. Focus distance was set to 20mm. ISO 100. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and +1/3 EV Stop being compensated with Matrix metering. The Photo was cropped, levelled, distortion corrected and sharpened with Adobe Photoshop Element 8.
This travel shot was made on my way up the stairs to the main hall of the Forbidden city when the little Chinese lady caught my attention in her attractive costume. She was actually just another visitor to the museum came with her parents. “She is so cute! Can I take a photo of her?” The answer was of course a yes.
I would hope to have swapped my Nikkor 10-24mm with a medium zoom Nikkor 18-105mm for better Bokeh, but the result was not really that bad either. Instead of a portrait shot, this was actually a combination of portrait and landscape photo. Having said that, the lady in front still draws most of the viewers’ attention. It proved that a great object can always compensate for slightly off composition in travel photograhy! – Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo guide.
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