This was North, the Highlands of Scotland, I'd say that ambient was about 2 stops darker than that. The following picture was taken in Iceland at about 1:30am and I've darkened it for mood, it was actually much brighter in reality! Iceland in midsummer is crazy! Pic was just a boring 1Ds with L zoom lens so I'm posting it small I'll find some on my MF Mamiya Velvia stuff and post up when I get a chance.
I love shooting at night but have done nowhere near any, maybe 5-nights to date so with the Aussie summer nearly here I'll have to lift my game.
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The Three Macbeth Witches represent darkness, chaos, and conflict.
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Witch no#1(chaos)
Witch no#2(darkness)
Witch no#3(conflict)
Witch no#3(conflict): She is reading off the screen of her phone and I rattled off this pic from a distance of inches. “Did you just take my picture?” and over the top of her words I could smell the cheap booze. We exchanged a few words, mine like carstenw's must have had some magic in them as she suddenly disappeared.
I'd like to breathe a little life back into the Twilight/Night thread now that winter is approaching in the Northern Hemisphere and we've shifted our clocks back.
fracas -- Sorry you feel that way. I'm not devoutly religious or ultra-orthodox. I consider any equipment or technique that is out of the ordinary to be in the Alt Realm. Especially when we are talking subject matter threads (Pano, Night, Fisheye, Bokeh/Soft-focus, etc.) -- they are orphan topics unless they are pertinent to sub-fora such as Landscape, etc.
Sony DSLR/Nex is Alt?
M4/3 is Alt?
Medium Format/Large Format is Alt?
Film is Alt?
Camera phone is Alt?
P&S is Alt?
Oh! Zeiss and Leica (or any bizarrely expensive gear) are ALT!
Now I get it!
It is okay to include all those named above as representing Alt (even though some are the most ubiquitously un-Alt in our culture), but draw the line at Canon/Canon doing something odd and cool as crossing the line.
Carsten -- Thanks again, for your very NIMBY approach. :- P
Here's the final image (digitally retouched) used for the 2012 Southern California IBEW/NECA calendar. This ended up being a combination of three images to get the best tonal range, taken from several time periods during the shoot (the camera wasn't disturbed, so matching was pretty easy). Final off-set litho printed image comes out around 15.5x22.5 inches, so, pretty good size! Today, I got to pick up some samples along with the disk with this image.
Shot with Canon 1Ds3 and Zeiss ZE 35/2, @ f/8, ISO 100.
And as a follow up to the early submission I made regarding the 2011 calendar image -- got to pick up the image file from the retouching at the printers.
I'll find some on my MF Mamiya Velvia stuff and post up when I get a chance.
I am not beating anyone up over it or reporting it, just complaining a little once in a while.