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Night shot, how was it done?
I'm looking at this shot and wonder how the photographer made it work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/futura/...7594562627177/ I realize that the shot is out of focus, but each time I attempt this sort of thing the result is very poor: the dark areas are all yellowy and the lights are all washed out. Where to take the light meter reading from? Would you use spot metering? What distance would you focus on? Just a bit out of focus or very much? Any other suggestions you have about this kind of shots? Thanks. |
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Night shot, how was it done?
Looks like no more than someone shooting using manual focus (deliberately
making it out of focus) with a pretty decent lens looking at the bokeh. Then using a fastish shutter speed. Light metering is experimental with this type of shot. The tricky bit is finding the location that this was taken, as it is this that plays a big part of the shot. "Hoshisato" wrote in message oups.com... I'm looking at this shot and wonder how the photographer made it work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/futura/...7594562627177/ I realize that the shot is out of focus, but each time I attempt this sort of thing the result is very poor: the dark areas are all yellowy and the lights are all washed out. Where to take the light meter reading from? Would you use spot metering? What distance would you focus on? Just a bit out of focus or very much? Any other suggestions you have about this kind of shots? Thanks. |
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Night shot, how was it done?
....use one of these for short DOF determination:
http://www.pbase.com/image/81217280 very slightly focus out... while the light meter measures you the right twilight.... reduce EV by ~2... shoot. There you go with an excellent BOKEH focus on? Just a bit out of focus or very much? Any other suggestions you have about this kind of shots? |
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Night shot, how was it done?
"Hoshisato" wrote in message oups.com... I'm looking at this shot and wonder how the photographer made it work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/futura/...7594562627177/ I realize that the shot is out of focus, but each time I attempt this sort of thing the result is very poor: the dark areas are all yellowy and the lights are all washed out. Where to take the light meter reading from? Would you use spot metering? What distance would you focus on? Just a bit out of focus or very much? Any other suggestions you have about this kind of shots? Thanks. You are overexposing the image. You judge the exposure by consulting the histogram. Jim |
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Night shot, how was it done?
Hoshisato wrote: I'm looking at this shot and wonder how the photographer made it work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/futura/...7594562627177/ I realize that the shot is out of focus, but each time I attempt this sort of thing the result is very poor: the dark areas are all yellowy and the lights are all washed out. Where to take the light meter reading from? Would you use spot metering? What distance would you focus on? Just a bit out of focus or very much? Any other suggestions you have about this kind of shots? Thanks. Does the photographer not answer your queries? |
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Night shot, how was it done?
Hoshisato wrote:
I'm looking at this shot and wonder how the photographer made it work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/futura/...7594562627177/ I realize that the shot is out of focus, but each time I attempt this sort of thing the result is very poor: the dark areas are all yellowy and the lights are all washed out. Where to take the light meter reading from? Skip the light meter and use manual exposure. The nice thing about digital cameras is that you can try many different versions without spending money. At ISO400 I'd start at f2.8 and, say a 30th of a second. Don't reduce the aperture by much if you want the blur. -- Ray Fischer |
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Night shot, how was it done?
Hoshisato wrote:
I'm looking at this shot and wonder how the photographer made it work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/futura/...7594562627177/ I realize that the shot is out of focus, but each time I attempt this sort of thing the result is very poor: the dark areas are all yellowy and the lights are all washed out. You are probably over exposing. Position yourself where everything in the near foreground is dark. Set the camera to the widest f/stop, focus it just slightly closer than the nearest object that is well enough light to be distinguishable in the image. Then expose at a relatively fast shutter speed and look at the histogram it produces. Change the shutter speed to position the brightest parts of the image almost to the right side of your histogram. Ideally that would be with the aperture wide open, but if you run out of shutter speed range it may be necessary to use an ND filter, or stop the lense down slightly. The problem with stopping down the lense is loss of what everyone has been saying is "great bokeh". With the aperture wide open it produces circular out of focus highlights, but if the lense is stopped down they will be the shape of your aperture. If you do have a great lense it won't be bad (if you have a 9 bladed shutter it might even be great!), but it won't be the same as the example image. Where to take the light meter reading from? Would you use spot metering? What distance would you focus on? Just a bit out of focus or very much? Any other suggestions you have about this kind of shots? The focus point, and the relative distances to highlight objects, will affect how the image looks. Hence you might want to look for a location where all objects are about the same distance (relatively, and keeping in mind that focal length of the lense will affect how relative that is) if you want the out of focus circles to look all similar. In any case, you'll have a very hard time judging what they look like through the viewfinder. It probably won't be all that easy to tell looking at an LCD display either! So take several exposures, each with the focus at slightly different points. And then switch focal lengths and do it again! -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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Night shot, how was it done?
On Jun 27, 4:45 am, (Floyd L. Davidson) wrote:
Hoshisato wrote: I'm looking at this shot and wonder how the photographer made it work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/futura/...7594562627177/ I realize that the shot is out of focus, but each time I attempt this sort of thing the result is very poor: the dark areas are all yellowy and the lights are all washed out. You are probably over exposing. Position yourself where everything in the near foreground is dark. Set the camera to the widest f/stop, focus it just slightly closer than the nearest object that is well enough light to be distinguishable in the image. Then expose at a relatively fast shutter speed and look at the histogram it produces. Change the shutter speed to position the brightest parts of the image almost to the right side of your histogram. Ideally that would be with the aperture wide open, but if you run out of shutter speed range it may be necessary to use an ND filter, or stop the lense down slightly. The problem with stopping down the lense is loss of what everyone has been saying is "great bokeh". With the aperture wide open it produces circular out of focus highlights, but if the lense is stopped down they will be the shape of your aperture. If you do have a great lense it won't be bad (if you have a 9 bladed shutter it might even be great!), but it won't be the same as the example image. Where to take the light meter reading from? Would you use spot metering? What distance would you focus on? Just a bit out of focus or very much? Any other suggestions you have about this kind of shots? The focus point, and the relative distances to highlight objects, will affect how the image looks. Hence you might want to look for a location where all objects are about the same distance (relatively, and keeping in mind that focal length of the lense will affect how relative that is) if you want the out of focus circles to look all similar. In any case, you'll have a very hard time judging what they look like through the viewfinder. It probably won't be all that easy to tell looking at an LCD display either! So take several exposures, each with the focus at slightly different points. And then switch focal lengths and do it again! -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) Much obliged for the clear instructions! |
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