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ben egbert wrote:
Having done a lot of night shots myself and also many where I know I will need to blend, I have a habit of bracketing as Kent suggests, IE finding a proper exposure for each part of the image. Then I set my brackets as required and do a burst set, for example -2,0,+2. When i have really long exposures I may do the brackets manually, but as fast as possible. I would shot this at f2.8 probably with either my Samyung 14 or my 16-35. To avoid star trails I need about a 20 second exposure, but I suspect the caldera can get by with a much faster exposure.
I would be shooting around ISO800.
I would prefer a full moon because that would light the rim and you don't have a milky way anyway. But the moon needs to be at your back.
I try to always go solo for landscape photos, its tough to do this even with other photographers let alone people who are just looking.
When I am on vacation, I take my wife during the day and look and scout. For sunrise I just leave the room alone early and am usually back before my wife is up.
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Thanks Ben, while I agree with much of what you are saying sometimes we just have to go with what we have available. Ideal conditions are wonderful when the stars align, but I know for me I find that a rare luxury. I take the same approach when on vacation or business travel (which this was, and most of my travel is)
In this case, the people were friends so I couldn't drop them at the side of the road or toss them into the caldera. I tried really hard but could not find the moon volume switch to make her go full. Putting it to my back would have resulted in, well, death.
Just having a little fun. I very much appreciate the comments and tips. That Rokinon 14 is on my list to get but I've not done it yet. soon,
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