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  • Experimenting with Night Photograhpy

    I was bored this night and I decided to go to my backyard and to my luck, the huge mansion next to my house was all lit up so I decided to take some shots of it. The best shot I mangaged to get was a 20-sec exposure shot with the timer mode on to minimize camera shake. The sky appeared really orange and in real life it didn't seem very orange. Please tell me what you think of this shot! Personally, it is one of my favorite shots!



    Thanks!
    Tomas.

  • #2
    I really like that shot, particularly the orange clouds. Well done .

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    • #3
      That is one nice shot, great work!

      To make it perfect, you'd have to darken that overexposed bit just a little. OTOH, that might just ruin the picture altogether; the bright-dark contrast is quite nice.

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      • #4
        Just curious, If you want to make a shot like that, does it really have to be 20sec shutterspeed. ???

        Wouldnt you have the same type of result if you only used 10 sec shutter ??

        Love the right side of the pic and foreground part of the image.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by John Paul
          Wouldnt you have the same type of result if you only used 10 sec shutter ??
          That depends on the ISO of the film you're using or the ISO setting you choose on your digital camera. ISO numbers describe the photosensitivity of the film or the sensor, and as a rule of thumb you can assume the higher the ISO (the higher the photosensitivity) is, the more grainy the picture will be. So You could get a similar result with 10 secs, but it would probably be noticeably more grainy - or you have a killer camera!

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          • #6
            RE: Experimenting with Night Photograhpy

            Hey guys,

            Thanks for your comments, I really appreciate them. And John Paul, the difference with using a 10 sec. exposure would of been a slightlier darker image and the clouds would appear clearer. I mean, the clouds in the 20 sec. exposure move just a bit, so you can see the clouds like if they were in movement in my shot. In a 10 sec shot, you would also see that movement but not as much as the 20 sec. one. As well, you would get a slightlier darker result I think, if I'm not mistaken, higher exposure time means more light, as least that's what's happened to be before in other shots.

            Thanks!
            Tomas.

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            • #7
              I personally like the effect of the cloud movement. If the clouds were sharper it would distract from your subject, the house. It would look better of the bright lights of the house were not over-exposed. I know it's hard when there's such a dynamic range.
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              • #8
                I had my first experimentation last weekend around campus with timed exposures as well..







                Gets addicting!!

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                • #9
                  Wow that bottom one reminds me of a volcano!
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                  • #10
                    Adam, I speak for everybody here when I say I hate you

                    Seriously though, awesome shots man!

                    Here's some of my experiments:
                    10 minutes, ISO 100 f/5.6, tungsten balanced


                    10 minutes, ISO 100 f/5.6, tungsten balanced


                    5 minutes, ISO 100 f/8, tungsten balanced


                    5 minutes, ISO 100 f/8, tungsten balanced


                    The last one I entered in Photographer's forum's College Photographers Photo Contest, we'll see how it turns out.


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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by E-Diddy!
                      Adam, I speak for everybody here when I say I hate you
                      And I hate YOU!

                      Awesome shots! Are any of those white stripes aircraft, as opposed to stars?

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                      • #12
                        Nope, just very bright stars. If you look closely in the picture of the blue light tree you can actually see a large number of stars smeared through the sky, it actually looks like tiny scratches on glass in a circular pattern.


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                        • #13
                          I did some shitty lightblur shots today (no tripod) I'll post them tommorrow.
                          How do you do a 10 minute exposure? I know most slr's have Bulb mode but you didn't actually hold the shutter for 10 minutes did you?

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by DeltaASA16
                            I had my first experimentation last weekend around campus with timed exposures as well..
                            Whoa. What's the data on the second one look like?
                            Click below.

                            [http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?userid=3669]

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by JordanD
                              I did some shitty lightblur shots today (no tripod) I'll post them tommorrow.
                              How do you do a 10 minute exposure? I know most slr's have Bulb mode but you didn't actually hold the shutter for 10 minutes did you?
                              Little known fact about the Canon 300D: If you use a cellphone earbud with a mute button and 3/32" plug, you can plug the earbud into the cord release jack, when you plug it in, the camera will instantly hit the autofocus, or if you have manual focus set on your lens, the camera will automatically open the shutter. In case you have it set to Autofocus, the autofocus will click, then you just push the mute button and the shutter opens. Only problem is that at the end of the exposure you have to physically pull the plug from the jack, but since it's a 10 minute exposure the resulting shake (slight anyway) will not show up.


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