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

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

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

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.
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I'm just learning fstop, exposure, etc. Can you explain in layman's
term..."shoot at one stop under exposure"

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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

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