p.11 #1 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
Wow what a great thread. That windmill shot from BennyR is amazing. So many great shots on here, hard to single any out for comments.
Here are a couple from the Juneau area.
First up is the last time we have had a good aurora display here a few years ago. A full moon still below the mountain behind me lites up the Mendenhall glacier and surrounding mountains with a light show from the Aurora. Very grainy as that I was just learning the new digital format at that time.
This next one is from Douglas boat harbor in Juneau. I was waiting for the sunrise and to kill some time I turned around and shot back towards town across the harbor.
This last shot is out at the Mendenhall glacier with a moon rise over mount Bullard. That is a friend of mine using a different perspective for his shot.
p.11 #3 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
The photos in this thread are outstanding so I thought I'd show some of mine just to make the others look better.
The following four photos were taken from the end of my driveway, this is the view I see every night (when I'm home). All three were taken with a Nikon D90, Nikon 18-200mm lens.
The following three were taken on the same night, just using different exposure
This one was taken with a Nikon 5700, hand held resting on a wall, focal length was 9mm, exposure was F2.8 @ 2.3sec.
p.11 #4 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
Detroit skyline taken from Windsor Canada on Jan 30, 2010
6 photo stitched using ArcSoft Panorama Maker 4 Pro
The resulting photo tweaked on in Photoshop CS3
comments welcome
p.11 #8 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
I'm going to start doing some Night photography again next week (maybe even tomorrow night). Since there are many great examples here, I thought we could just spin it up again (3 months of no activity) as opposed to starting another thread.
Summer is here - well north of the equator anyway - so I hope those of you that have an interest in this type of photography will add posts. I can't wait to see what happens.
I love shooting at night. My recipe is simple:
1. use a tripod and remote (5D MKII, Canon remote, gitzo 1540, Markins Q3)
2. set mirror lock up
3. manual exposure. i try to dial in a small aperture where possible between f8-f16. This makes lights look star like and drags the shutter for smooth water and light-trails from traffic.
4. snap away, make sure you have lot's of overlap for stitching.
High-res and more at my flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/caseyyee
p.11 #18 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
Near the summit of Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park. This is a 5 or 6 shot panorama. The exposures were generally about 60 sec at f/5.6, iso 800. However, because the moon keep going behind clouds intermittently, I had to guess at adjusting the exposures while they were in progress, and then equalize them in processing. Of course, the sky darkeness wan't affected by the moon going behind the clouds, so when I equalized the foreground the skies would become unqualized. Ultimately I had to make a set for the ground and a set for the sky, create two panoramas, and merge the sky and ground versions with layers in Photoshop.
p.11 #20 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
dsjtecserv wrote:
Near the summit of Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park. This is a 5 or 6 shot panorama. The exposures were generally about 60 sec at f/5.6, iso 800. However, because the moon keep going behind clouds intermittently, I had to guess at adjusting the exposures while they were in progress, and then equalize them in processing. Of course, the sky darkeness wan't affected by the moon going behind the clouds, so when I equalized the foreground the skies would become unqualized. Ultimately I had to make a set for the ground and a set for the sky, create two panoramas, and merge the sky and ground versions with layers in Photoshop.
It's stuff like this that makes me want to get a nodal rail. Right now I just shoot straight from the ballhead but for comps like this I would have a lot of parallax problems.
