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Night photography advice???
Tonight I went to the top of a medium sized hill overlooking the town of
Blacksburg, VA and set my Nikon N65 on a tripod viewing the town lights a couple hours after sunset. I used the Shutter-Priority mode with a 3 second exposure and used the time delay since I don't have a remote trigger. I had on a 28-80Nikor zoom lens at about 50mm and 200 speed fuji film. My goal was to get some of the building shapes as well as the lights. Anybody have any predictions about how it might turn out or what I should have done? Please keep in mind I am a beginner and would appreciate all advice! Thanks, Adam |
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Night photography advice???
get out there just after sundown, shoot at one stop under exposure, this will give you a threshold exposure, capture detail of the buildings, now wait for a good hour or so, shoot again, this time getting an exposure to capture the lights. The twilight expo should be done when the sky is deep purple but you can still see. Tonight I went to the top of a medium sized hill overlooking the town of Blacksburg, VA and set my Nikon N65 on a tripod viewing the town lights a couple hours after sunset. I used the Shutter-Priority mode with a 3 second exposure and used the time delay since I don't have a remote trigger. I had on a 28-80Nikor zoom lens at about 50mm and 200 speed fuji film. My goal was to get some of the building shapes as well as the lights. Anybody have any predictions about how it might turn out or what I should have done? Please keep in mind I am a beginner and would appreciate all advice! Thanks, Adam |
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Night photography advice???
A clarification. I believe Zeitgeist intends you to make a double
exposure on the same frame of film, so you have to take it off automatic advance. I agree with the method he recommends. The only other necessary point, then, is that you have to set up with a tripod and not move the camera between exposures. Good photography requires patience. Francis A. Miniter zeitgeist wrote: get out there just after sundown, shoot at one stop under exposure, this will give you a threshold exposure, capture detail of the buildings, now wait for a good hour or so, shoot again, this time getting an exposure to capture the lights. The twilight expo should be done when the sky is deep purple but you can still see. Tonight I went to the top of a medium sized hill overlooking the town of Blacksburg, VA and set my Nikon N65 on a tripod viewing the town lights a couple hours after sunset. I used the Shutter-Priority mode with a 3 second exposure and used the time delay since I don't have a remote trigger. I had on a 28-80Nikor zoom lens at about 50mm and 200 speed fuji film. My goal was to get some of the building shapes as well as the lights. Anybody have any predictions about how it might turn out or what I should have done? Please keep in mind I am a beginner and would appreciate all advice! Thanks, Adam |
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Night photography advice???
Adam Barker, à écrit :
Tonight I went to the top of a medium sized hill overlooking the town of Blacksburg, VA and set my Nikon N65 on a tripod viewing the town lights a couple hours after sunset. I used the Shutter-Priority mode with a 3 second exposure and used the time delay since I don't have a remote trigger. I had on a 28-80Nikor zoom lens at about 50mm and 200 speed fuji film. I used a 3200 ISO film with a 50/1,4 lens. http://www.monochromatique.com/extnuit/ -- + WEb ~ hTML ~ PhOTo + http://www.monochromatique.com Association de Photographes - http://ecpa.eu.org http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/canoneos_fr |
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Night photography advice???
I'm just learning fstop, exposure, etc. Can you explain in layman's
term..."shoot at one stop under exposure" Isis "zeitgeist" wrote in message et... get out there just after sundown, shoot at one stop under exposure, this will give you a threshold exposure, capture detail of the buildings, now wait for a good hour or so, shoot again, this time getting an exposure to capture the lights. The twilight expo should be done when the sky is deep purple but you can still see. Tonight I went to the top of a medium sized hill overlooking the town of Blacksburg, VA and set my Nikon N65 on a tripod viewing the town lights a couple hours after sunset. I used the Shutter-Priority mode with a 3 second exposure and used the time delay since I don't have a remote trigger. I had on a 28-80Nikor zoom lens at about 50mm and 200 speed fuji film. My goal was to get some of the building shapes as well as the lights. Anybody have any predictions about how it might turn out or what I should have done? Please keep in mind I am a beginner and would appreciate all advice! Thanks, Adam |
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Night photography advice???
ONEStar wrote:
I'm just learning fstop, exposure, etc. Can you explain in layman's term..."shoot at one stop under exposure" Each fstop change results in doubling or halving the amount of light recorded. Shooting at one stop under would mean underexposing by one fstop, therefore providing half the amount of normal light, which results in a darker picture. You underexpose by increasing the fstop number to the next full value (technically multiplying the fstop value by sqrt(2)): 4, 5.6, 8, 11, etc. If a normal exposure were 1/125 second at f/5.6, changing from f/5.6 to f/8 with the same shutter speed would result in a one stop under exposure. Likewise halving the exposure time from f/5.6 at 1/125 to f/5.6 at 1/250 would also result in a one stop under exposure. Thad |
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