p.4 #8 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
Long exposures at the beach, with a full moon. Obviously I used a camera, lens, tripod and remote release for bulb. Technically the biggest problem with these shots is water going under the tripod in the sand. With a less noisy camera I might try stopping and restarting the exposure for those waves, but with long-exposure noise reduction on that isn't an option.
p.4 #11 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
Love this idea, here are my two contributions from a recent trip to KL:
Was on the 33rd floor of Traders Hotel and had to stand on the seat and hold the camera far out to avoid shooting the parapet as a result of the 16mm. So, handheld, but braced :-) No real PP, just defaults and usual tweaks in Lightroom.
Camera make:Canon
Camera model:Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Focal length:16 mm
Max lens aperture:f/2.8
Exposure:1/15 at f/2.8
Flash:Not fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias:-1/3 EV
Exposure mode:Auto
Exposure prog.:Normal
ISO speed:ISO 1250
Metering mode:Center-weighted average
I like this one too, on the way to Traders. Petronas Towers is reflected in this buildings facade. Handheld, thank goodness for 3200 ISO! No real PP again, just defaults and usual tweaks in Lightroom.
Camera make:Canon
Camera model:Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Focal length:35 mm
Max lens aperture:f/2.8
Exposure:1/20 at f/2.8
Flash:Not fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias:-1 EV
Exposure mode:Auto
Exposure prog.:Normal
ISO speed:ISO 3200
Metering mode:Pattern
Here's my favourite, done of my home city of Perth, Western Australia at 20:41 in January, so it was past dusk. This was tripod mounted and it's a cropped full frame shot and a fair bit (for me) of PP - dust removal, black levels, exposure, cropping, saturation, vibrance, clarity, curve, rotation, tone, camera profile:
Camera make:Canon
Camera model:Canon EOS 5D
Focal length:24 mm
Max lens aperture:f/2.8
Exposure:0.4s at f/9
Flash:Not fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias:-1/3 EV
Exposure mode:Auto
Exposure prog.:Aperture priority
ISO speed:ISO 400
Metering mode:Pattern
p.4 #12 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
greeneggs wrote:
Long exposures at the beach, with a full moon. Obviously I used a camera, lens, tripod and remote release for bulb.
greeneggs, I'll bite - what's the bright object in the 2nd shot?
kylebarendrick, I've come late to this thread, but this looks positively 3D. The separation between the blue and the magenta/purple is astonishing. Well done. I've just flicked it to my landscape colour balanced monitor (vs my web viewing portrait, non-colour balanced, one) and it's even better!
p.4 #15 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
Thanks to everyone for their amazing shots and contributing to what I feel is the most amazing time to take photos, at night, the photos have been outstanding please continue to post I look forward to seeing all the photos, I will be doing this again at the end of 2010 so please continue to stock up on those Nightscapes. I hope some of you have learned some techniques from this thread and apply it in the future, I know I am going to try some light painting and try and catch that Aurora.
Again thanks to everyone and please keep on posting.
p.4 #20 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
SimonBl wrote:
greeneggs, I'll bite - what's the bright object in the 2nd shot?
Simon...
In the first shot, it is an oil rig. In the second shot, I used a Petzl LED headlamp to draw some, and that's where the highlight comes from. I think it is actually the reflection off a wet rock down in the surf. These were both relatively long exposures---three to five minutes---compared to the other beach shots on this page. This gives very clean compositions, but can sometimes be a bit boring. Accents from lightpainting are sometimes nice. (And also luck; the first shot has lobster divers swimming out to the pylons, while the second shot caught a boat light going across right at the horizon.)
I love this thread. rickberk, I particularly like your Half Dome photo.
