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An enchanting evening on the Virgin River was composed of three different shots taken over a span of two hours. The first image was metered for the river and it was taken at 4:51 pm with 100 ISO 1/30 at f/11. The second image was taken at 5:23 pm and metered for the Watchman (the mountain in the distance) and it was shot at 1/20 at f/11 with 100 ISO. I waited for the stars to come out and shot the night sky at 6:44 pm bumping the ISO to 400 and shooting for 30 seconds at f/5.6. Once home, I blended the three images together using masks. Jarv

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Dec 17, 2009 at 05:47 PM

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doug, that is a one in a million shot. amazing.

Dec 17, 2009 at 05:49 PM

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kevindar wrote:
doug, that is a one in a million shot. amazing.

Thanks.

Dec 17, 2009 at 06:12 PM

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Doug Otto wrote:
25 minute exposure. I was using my Canon 17-40 f/4L, at f/4, on my 5D at ISO 400. I did have to apply a standard helping of Noiseware and painstakingly removed a jet trail across the top 3rd of the image.

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Cheers

Wow, Doug, excellent shot!!! Incredible.

Dec 17, 2009 at 06:15 PM

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Holy Mackeral there's some good work here on this thread! Great idea, Shane...

Dec 17, 2009 at 06:17 PM

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p.2 #6 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

I'll share.

The first image is kinda old. Actually I took it with my rebel xt and kit lens.

We had a very early Spring that year and the leaves all came out way too early. Wouldn't you know it, we had a night that hit about 22 degrees and killed everything. You can see the leaves here are an odd mix of green, bronze, and brown. The trees were lit by some distant baseball fields. I threw a rock into the water to stir up some mud to give a little red color to the water.

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But my favorite night photo is actually a portrait.
This was for a friend of mine. I had an idea of doing some senior portraits in odd places and I wanted to mix in night photography as well. Cemetary.

Mark 3, 16-35, 580 ex and shoot thru umbrella, flashlight for painting after she got up to fill in the area behind her. No photoshop here other than maybe levels or contrast:

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Dec 17, 2009 at 06:25 PM

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Some great stuff.

This is the first image I have ever posted here so I hope I do this right.

D80 Tammy 17-50 @ 17 multiple 10sec exp. blended together to get more car streaks

Dec 17, 2009 at 06:47 PM

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p.2 #8 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

Fantastic images!!!

Here are a few from me.

5DII, 16-35mmf2.8 @ 20mm - f2.8, 8sec, 1250ISO
Oct 23, 2009 3:28am

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5DII, 16-35mmf2.8 @ 16mm - f2.8, 30sec, 1600ISO
Aug 20, 2009 1:51am

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Keep them coming!!!!

Z

It's ALL about the light...

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Dec 17, 2009 at 07:10 PM

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Zeder, my jaw just dropped. amazing!

Dec 17, 2009 at 07:29 PM

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BeaverMan wrote:
Zeder, my jaw just dropped. amazing!

I'll take that as a compliment! Thank You!
Z

It's ALL about the light...

Dec 17, 2009 at 07:31 PM

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p.2 #11 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

Z,

Please share as much as you can as to how those images came about I am sitting here waiting.

PLEASE

Shane

Dec 17, 2009 at 08:15 PM

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Zeder wrote:
BeaverMan wrote:
Zeder, my jaw just dropped. amazing!

I'll take that as a compliment! Thank You!
Z

It's ALL about the light...

Zeder... you realize that you won't be able to get away that easily, right? Explain how the hell you go this.

Dec 17, 2009 at 08:19 PM

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p.2 #13 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

OK....

Don't sleep! I have a young family... If I want to have any ME time, I do it when they are all asleep. Works great except for the fact I don't sleep.

There are a few websites like www.spaceweather.com that display a real-time photo of the active aurora belt in the northern hemisphere. Their forecast section, lower left of the page, is pretty good as a reference. If I see something is headed my way, then I will look into the cloud cover in my area. Find a dark spot at least 50 miles from any city, light pollution bad, dark good! Don't shoot over a city either.
Good tripod, 800-1600iso and f2.8 glass help when activity is lower. f4 glass and the same ISO ranges work great if activity is good. The lower the exposure time you need the more details in the Aurora you will see. 15 sec and as high of an ISO you are willing to go, is a good place to start but you will need active aurora to get good images.

Then drive around in the country in the middle of the night like a crazy fool looking for a suitable backdrop, once you find a lake/trees/building whatever... remember its dark out, sometimes that can be difficult. Then stand around in the dark and wait. I use a combination of GPS/Smartphone/Google maps/laptop to allow me to do all the nav and monitor aurora activity in my vehicle. Aurora chaser, not a storm chaser.

One last thing... This is a fantastic display! Everyone has to see it with their own eye at least once, think “Bucket list”, but it is an act of mother nature, so a little bit of luck always helps! So does an understanding wife, and NO, she won't be reading this!

Any other questions

Z

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Dec 17, 2009 at 08:46 PM

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p.2 #14 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

Thanks Z we all really apreciate the detailed info.

I got to see one of those

Shane

Dec 17, 2009 at 08:59 PM

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5D + 70-200 f/4 @ 200mm
The camera was mounted on a tripod with a 3 second exposure @ f/11. The image was shot as a RAW file, and processed in Adobe Photoshop CS4, and edited for exposure, slight color saturation, and sharpness.

-Nick

Dec 17, 2009 at 09:42 PM

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I am completely dumbfounded about the quality of the work on this thread!!! Holy Mackerel!! The work is unbelievable!

Dec 17, 2009 at 09:46 PM

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Hugh,

How Does that whole HDR work, can you explain.

WOW all the photos look Amazing can't wait to see more

Thanks

Shane

Hello Shane,

Jason pretty much explained it. The best tutorial I've found is by Ben Willmore - High Dynamic Range (HDR) Mastery. It's available at www.digitalmastery.com an an on-line course.

If you have other questions, you are welcome to eMail me. If you would like to see a selection of extreme HDR images, check out www.hdrgrunge.com

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hugh

Dec 17, 2009 at 09:57 PM

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phil hawkins wrote:
I am completely dumbfounded about the quality of the work on this thread!!! Holy Mackerel!! The work is unbelievable!

Phil... you know that you can piss with the big boys so post some of that Yosemite stuff dude! You are the one that initially inspired me to shoot scapes and I swear one of these days, I'm just going to hop on a plane and take the Yosemite tour with you. Someday. Someday.

Dec 17, 2009 at 10:08 PM

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I wouldn't say this was my best, but it was fun. I found these three trees above Olmstead Point in Yosemite. It was the night before the full moon, and the moon was over my right shoulder. The moon lit the landscape, but the trees were in shadow. I used colored gels over my flash to light and color the trees, using something like 4-6 pops on each tree.

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Canon T1I and Tokina 12-24
f/8 for 217 seconds
Tripod, remote, no filters and minimal post-processing

Dec 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM

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p.2 #20 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

I think this qualifies.

Canon 40D and 24-105L IS

F8 and a 2sec exposure

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Canon 40D and EFS 10-22

F11, ISO 100 and a 8 sec exposure

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Dec 17, 2009 at 11:37 PM

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