p.13 #6 · 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!
p.13 #7 · 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?
p.13 #8 · 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 04:43 PM
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p.13 #9 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
p.13 #15 · 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.
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.
p.13 #17 · 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
... but yeah, how can you meter using bulb?
I love the angle on that shot! Very nice.
