On a lovely summer day here in New York City, I wanted to capture the people enjoying the stunning view from the park. 6 second exposure with tripod mounted Nikon D70s, 24-120 VR @24mm, ISO 200, f 8. I flashed the couple in the foreground with a hand held SB800 to balance them with the rest of the seen.
Nikon D200, 24-120 VR @ 24mm, ISO 100, 30 seconds, f 22. I converted as shade white balance to emphasize the warm tones and then warmed more in Photoshop.
Fuji S602z, ISO 160, 3 seconds, f 2.8. I did not have a tripod with me so I placed the camera on a rock wall and used some rock chips to adjust the composition.
p.8 #2 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
Great work here. Ive been trying this tech for a couple of weeks now and can not get anything this good. You are an inspiration to keep working on it.
SimonBl wrote:
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.8 #3 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
Very cool thread. I haven't been around here in a while and really enjoyed reading through some of the pages here.
This is a shot I've posted here before; it's a natural moonbow captured on the Kancamagus highway in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire. Probably a once-in-a-lifetime type of shot. Following the image, I've pasted the original "story" I put up with it initially.
I recently took a trip up to New Hampshire and Maine to shoot foliage. I went early (late September) because of a family obligation, and so headed fairly far north. My wife needed me to hang around until Friday afternoon of the week I went, so I was trying to decide if I should head up late on Friday or wait until Saturday. It was a rainy, miserable day but I decided I might as well get going and then I could have a fresh start on Saturday, already part of the way to my destination.
I drove up to New Hampshire and planned to just camp out in my car (where I stayed for the trip) overnight on Friday. I noticed, though, that the storm we were having seemed to have cleared out early. Eager to get going, and knowing that the nearly full moon was waning, I decided to set up for some moonlight shots near Kancamagus Pass.
I obviously had just shown up and thus had no opportunity to scout, but set up in a place I thought was likely to be good, and did my usual "test shot" routine (ISO 3200 f/2.8 30 seconds) to see that the color was at least decent. I did a couple of moonlight shots.
After a couple of these images I noticed that remnant clouds from the storm that had been moving across the frame were starting to thicken up on my right, more than I anticipated. I looked over and the sky was blocked out. I also noticed an odd looking cloud to my right which seemed somewhat arc shaped. I wondered...
So I pivoted the camera off to the west and snapped a test shot, and it was what I thought it was. Excited, and knowing that I likely only had a few minutes before I was overtaken by what was obviously another parcel of the not-quite-departed storm, I set up for another couple of shots. This time I used ISO 1600 and just 30 seconds because I didn't want to spend my usual several minutes on one shot.
The image below captures the best of the moment. The moon is off to my left in this shot and slightly behind me, having risen a couple of hours earlier. The storm is moving in from the right. You can see a few stars in the sky.
I believe this image is pretty unique. Moonbows are not that uncommon but usually are either from waterfalls where they are known to form, or taken "wherever" they show up. It must be rather rare to have one show up when already setting up to take moonlight shots in a nice place.
Technical: Canon 5D, 16-35mm @ 16mm, ISO 1600, f/5.6, 30 seconds. The noise was pretty bad, and I had a lot of trouble dealing with it because the noise reducers interpret the mottled pattern of the colored trees as being chroma noise. I ended up having to try several sets of parameters and then use a mask to mostly remove noise from the sky and not the ground. ...Show more →
Canon 5D Mark II
EF 16-35mm at 16mm
32-sec exposure
ISO 3200
f/3.2
I was setting up a timelapse dolly move. My LED headlamp spilled some lightly (luckily) while I was adjusting the legs on the two tripods holding up my moco dolly. If you look close, you can see a meteor. I don't think I really did any post processing at all on this.
p.8 #10 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
I took this shot the first day (night) I got my 5D MKII. I had forgotten to activate the in camera NR so I had to spend quite some time getting rid of noise in PP. Crop and NR are the only PP done (I think).
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure: 900
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal Length: 29 mm
ISO Speed: 400
p.8 #11 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
a bit of a human element but thought I'd share anyways...we were 'nest sitting' - waiting for a loggerhead sea turtle nest to potentially hatch that night, hoping to watch the young turtles begin their journey in life from the beach into the Atlantic on their way to the Sargasso Sea.
Shot with the 5D, ISO 800 @ 30 seconds with the 24-70L.
p.8 #12 · Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
some nice work going on here, can not compliment on all of them but i am enjoying these.
one i took last week at miami and is a variation of a posted image
