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p.15 #1 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

Trial and error is really the only way. Once you do it for a while, you'll get a sense of what kind of exposure times you need. Without a remote it will be very hard though, don't you have to hold down the shutter button to keep it open?

Jul 09, 2010 at 09:05 PM

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p.15 #2 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

I start with the rules of thumb for moonlight exposures. I'll then take some test shots at a high ISO and wide open aperture to dial in the exposure (and composition). At that point I can adjust the ISO back to 100 or 200 and a better depth of field and I know how long to expose with the remote.

Jul 09, 2010 at 09:43 PM

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p.15 #3 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

WOW!!!

Jul 10, 2010 at 06:23 AM

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p.15 #4 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

one of mine

5DII, 24-70, 24mm, f8, 30sec

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Jul 10, 2010 at 09:28 AM

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p.15 #5 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

^^ I know that place, you Melbournite!!!

I love the angle on that shot! Very nice.

Circular Quay, Sydney Harbour.
EOS 350D, 17-40mm f/4L, Tripod.

Base Exposure 10
Aperture f/7.1
Focal Length 22 mm
ISO Speed 100
-2, 0 and +2 EV HDR.

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Jul 10, 2010 at 10:48 AM

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p.15 #6 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

ah okay, practice make perfect... thnx for the info

Jul 10, 2010 at 05:07 PM

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p.15 #7 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

I added this pic earlier then found this listing ! doh!

Sotogrande Marina

2012 © AmandaJL

NIKON D90 18 mm f/3.5 13 sec 200 ISO 0.0 EV

Jul 10, 2010 at 09:51 PM

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p.15 #8 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

1/20th
f8
24mm
ISO 800

Jul 11, 2010 at 04:30 AM

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p.15 #9 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

Was going through my Smith Rock stuff and found this better example. Thats moonlight lighting up the cliffs.

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Roman

Jul 12, 2010 at 04:56 PM

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p.15 #10 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

D80 propped on a rock. It was too dark to see through the viewfinder and too cold to fiddle, so I just had to try. Unfortunately this was before Nikon released the D80 firmware update, so the picture suffered from a lot of amp noise, and noise in general.

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Jul 13, 2010 at 02:20 AM

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p.15 #11 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

Here's one of a series I took while on a business trip in Denver:

40D, Tamron 17-50 at 50mm
ISO 100, 20 s, f 10.0
some old Slik tripod I've had for 20 years.

I actually have a really cool pano of this same view that includes Coors field (stage left) and the Nugget's arena (to the right) but for the life of me I can't get the headlight streaks on the highway to look anything other than clunky.

Jul 13, 2010 at 04:42 AM

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p.15 #12 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

Chicago Skyline
The night of the Blackhawk's Stanley Cup Rally
4 shot pano stitched using Hugin
40D on a cheap bestbuy tripod with cabled shutter release
50mm at f/11 & 10 second exposures

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Jul 13, 2010 at 05:33 PM

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p.15 #13 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

Chicago Skyline in the Winter
10 shot pano stitched using Hugin
40D on a tripod with remote shutter
50mm at f/11 & 15 second exposures

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Jul 13, 2010 at 05:39 PM

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p.15 #14 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

Buckingham Fountain
40D on a tripod with remote shutter
17-40 f/4L at 17mm - f/11 - 10 seconds

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Jul 13, 2010 at 05:42 PM

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p.15 #15 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

Louisville from Indiana across the Ohio just at last light
exp. 6s
f/22
iso 125
24mm

Kevin.

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Jul 13, 2010 at 07:26 PM

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p.15 #16 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

I have seen great photos here,
There's 1 thing that i don't quite understand...
there's a picture which taken for 25 minutes, and i've seen on early pages there's 1 photo in which taken for 4 hours...
i know they are using the bulb, but what i really want to know...
how do they know whether they need 25 minutes or 4 hours exposure....
in-camera only allow until 30 second as i remember, that is an easy one 'coz i can see the metering within the camera, so i know that this will come out great.... it would be different with using bulb for fireworks too.
i have no remote, so i only know bulb from the forum ... but yeah, how can you meter using bulb?
i hope i don't confuse everyone... thank you!

On technic that I use is to shoot at the highest ISO in your camera (mine is 6400) at the highest aperture (f4 for example)...do some trial and error and then the math to go back to ISO 100 f8. For instance if the shoot I got at f4 ISO 6400 for 1 minutes is OK, then I will do ISO 100 f8 (1minutes x2x2x2x2x2x2 for ISO, x2x2 for apperture = 256 minutes!)

Jul 13, 2010 at 08:52 PM

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p.15 #17 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

#1 & #2 are Newburyport, MA

#3 is Portsmouth NH

all are 3 exposure HDR processed in Photomatix, finished with PS CS4.

5D II + TS-E 24 II

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Jul 14, 2010 at 02:01 AM

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Doug Otto wrote:
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Don't mind me asking something noobish perhaps, but how does one shoot a picture like this?
I understand that it takes loooooong exposure, but is that all it takes? You don't need to rotate the camera manually or something like that?
I also guess the picture of the other details (not the stars themselves), are shot seperate and photoshopped in later?

Looks very cool! I probably don't have the right gear for this (yet), but I sure like to know the technique behind it.

Thanks in advance!!

Jul 14, 2010 at 10:41 PM

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p.15 #19 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

If you have a camera you could do it. I'll let Doug answer your questions though. (no camera rotation) Mother earth does that for you.

Nice shot Doug.

Jul 14, 2010 at 10:49 PM

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p.15 #20 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made

Hehe...thanks for the teaser ; )

I won't mind you answering it btw...I just took Doug's picture because it was the first of it's kind in this thread

Jul 15, 2010 at 12:09 AM

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