Night stuff... Post what you like

Danspage · January 20, 2010

Vegas Baby Vegas!
Vegas Baby Vegas!

I Love The Night Life!

Here for a few days for a wedding. Had a few extra Hours to walk the south side of Vegas.

Feel free to vote for your favorite photo. I find it the hardest thing to pick a favorite.

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Everyone In Vegas was Great. I never had a problem with the tripod placement. I used my small shaky E-bay Carbon tripod.
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I think this is my best Photo of the night.
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On a clear day you can see all the way to Paris.
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On to the City New York!

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In the distance you start to see a Disney like castle
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Jago-ViG · September 28, 2010

NYC Never stops by Jago-ViG, on Flickr

piolet_rampe · September 28, 2010

a few of my recent favorite night shots from Vietnam
what's cooking?

lanterns in market at Hoi An

Full Moon festival in Hoi An

I need to fix the image above since there are ghosts from the filter I was using. I think I will not use a filter for night photography again.

08whitex · September 28, 2010

Seefutlung · September 28, 2010

Kevinhooa · September 28, 2010

Wow! Some amazing shots in this thread. Here's a couple of my own night shots.

Camping It All Away by Owls Flight Photography, on Flickr
Camping in the Pines.

Explosion of Light Around a Group by Owls Flight Photography, on Flickr
Camping again.

# 800 Sleeps by Owls Flight Photography, on Flickr
Winslow Junction.

Speeding Towards the Curve by Owls Flight Photography, on Flickr
This one makes you feel kind of funny. lol

Passing By by Owls Flight Photography, on Flickr
Heading home on the hog.

Enjoy.

bgarland · September 28, 2010

My contribution

08whitex · September 28, 2010

My wife an I are Ghosts

bgarland · September 29, 2010

From one ghost to another...very cool.

00SS · September 29, 2010

wow - there are some really nice captures here.. here are a few of my night shots..

daughter 3 of 4

fiery red head wife..

downtown fort worth

fireworks, new year in front of our house

fishing in texoma

tripods attacking

daughter 4 of 4

Tdcompton · September 29, 2010

schmoo · October 1, 2010

Hi Devin and welcome! Wow what a cool series. You have a good eye and I love the variety of subjects here. Also, night photography is always fun, because what you see is definitely not what you get.

FLYING EYEBALL · October 1, 2010

A few from the Seattle-Tacoma area.

davev · October 1, 2010

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Minneapolis

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D.C.

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St Paul

00SS · October 1, 2010

schmoo wrote: »

Hi Devin and welcome! Wow what a cool series. You have a good eye and I love the variety of subjects here. Also, night photography is always fun, because what you see is definitely not what you get.

Hi Schmoo - thank you very much, glad you liked them.

Razzmatazz · October 10, 2010

I took some night shots last evening. I've always enjoyed star gazing - but never tried to photograph the stars until last night. I was surprised to see how many colors my camera could capture. I used my 1.8f/35mm lens. The colors not only in the stars - but on the trees - as they approach full color this fall. Here are a few examples.

A view of the neighbor's house and sky.

A portrait view of the same scene.

This is the Milky Way galaxy. Notice what appears to be another galaxy on the upper right portion of the photo. I was surprised by the different colors.

bgarland · October 10, 2010

Ed, Very cool. I agree, I am amazing by what our cameras can capture at night. Great captures. One trick is to use live view if you have it and maybe a flashlight if needed to focus on the foreground like the tree. Then the overall image will be sharper.

Razzmatazz · October 18, 2010

bgarland wrote: »

Ed, Very cool. I agree, I am amazing by what our cameras can capture at night. Great captures. One trick is to use live view if you have it and maybe a flashlight if needed to focus on the foreground like the tree. Then the overall image will be sharper.

Bgarland- Thanks for the suggestions. I don't have live view but I like the flashlight idea. I put the camera in manual focus mode - because I couldn't get a lock in the auto-focus mode. Looking through the camera eye piece was a pain - since it was on a tripod - facing upwards. Irregardless of this - I couldn't see well enough to even focus manually. I was truly shooting in the dark when it came to focusing - pun intended.

JimKarczewski · October 19, 2010

This is from Arches National Park last week when there was no moon to create additional light in the night sky....

Never done star pics because here in Chicago it's just too bright! I think this was a 15 second exposure on my 16-35 @ 2.8, ISO 3200.

WernerG · October 19, 2010

Covered Bridge
20 sec exposure, long enough for one car to go through in each direction.

Werner
http://wernerg.smugmug.com/

JHeffner · October 24, 2010

I love long-exposure night photography. With a now-16-month-old at home, I don't get out as much as I'd like. Here is one I took a couple years ago:

The Conquest of the West by J Heffner, on Flickr

I should note that this is a 2-image composite.

Z6I · October 24, 2010

Here's a new one from Corona del Mar, CA

Razzmatazz · October 24, 2010

National Arches milkyway shot
Jim- your picture is awesome.

I don't think it dark enough where I live to see that much - even on a moonless night. You used an ISO setting that is too noisy in my camera. I don't bother going beyond ISO 1600. Some day .. I'll invest in a better camera.

JimKarczewski · October 24, 2010

Razzmatazz wrote: »

Jim- your picture is awesome. I don't think it dark enough where I live to see that much - even on a moonless night. You used an ISO setting that is too noisy in my camera. I don't bother going beyond ISO 1600. Some day .. I'll invest in a better camera.

Yeah, I was leery about pushing to 3200. I'm sure I would had gotten something at 1600, but I didn't want any movement, so it would had been a little tough I think. Maybe next time I'll try my 20/1.8 Sigma, even though it is a piece of junk lens.

Would love to rent a tracking system for a long exposure, but I'm not a star freak, or someone that's really that interested in getting more.. if I did, I'd find me a big telescope to shoot with.