Night Shots

ian408 · January 11, 2004

Not bad for a point and shoot.

hutchman · January 11, 2004

Nice!

I have had only limited experience with night shots. I tried some timed exposures on last spring and came up with this -

Hutch

ian408 · January 11, 2004

hutchman wrote:

Nice!

I have had only limited experience with night shots. I tried some timed exposures on last spring and came up with this -

Hutch

I like the ocean at night. Mysterious. Dark. And somehow calming.

Ian

wxwax · January 12, 2004

G3 on a tripod... I kept messing with the exposure time to see how dark I could get it... I wanted just a pool of light around the bike.... a lonely machine in an empty parking lot.

cmr164 · January 13, 2004

More night shots...
I like the sea shot and the lonely GS shot. Here are a few shots I took meandering around Cannes one night in Oct 2001

The full size images can be found at Cannes_Jpn or for the high bandwidth folks, Cannes_Jpn_lg

wxwax · January 13, 2004

I've never tried shooting fireworks. I'm sure there are techniques ... picking the spot must be difficult.

I made several (as in more than I care to admit) attempts to capture this fountain in Charleston, SC. I think I'm still trying to figure out what I should have been trying to capture. At first I thought it was the sheeting of the water, with a slooow exposure. Now I'm thinking I should have gone for the interesting shapes of the fountain itself, and let the water take care of itself. I spend so much time struggling with composition that I don't leave enough grey matter to deal with lighting, exposure and depth of field issues.

wxwax · January 13, 2004

A couple more... lots of work do do. Sigh.

ian408 · January 14, 2004

wxwax wrote:

I've never tried shooting fireworks. I'm sure there are techniques ... picking the spot must be difficult.

I made several (as in more than I care to admit) attempts to capture this fountain in Charleston, SC. I think I'm still trying to figure out what I should have been trying to capture. At first I thought it was the sheeting of the water, with a slooow exposure. Now I'm thinking I should have gone for the interesting shapes of the fountain itself, and let the water take care of itself. I spend so much time struggling with composition that I don't leave enough grey matter to deal with lighting, exposure and depth of field issues.

I might have shot this wider to get a feel for the water and lighting. Then
the water might make more "sense"?

Ian

wxwax · January 14, 2004

Good suggestion, thanks Ian. I think there was a lamp I was trying to squeeze out of the shot. But either way, you're right, the framing just isn't working. I have a detail shot that works a wee bit better. Bit it's on my old machine, gotta dig it out.

KC Action · January 15, 2004

I took this shot in downtown Tulsa at about 2:00am after closing. The Cain's Ballroom has a ton of history having been in Tulsa since the discovery of the oilfields nearly 80 years ago. Acts as varied and famous as the Wills Brothers, Elvis Presley and B. B. King have all played at the Cain's over the years. I was trying to capture the loneliness of a place like this after it has closed and eveyone has gone home.

Baldy · January 15, 2004

What a great shot! More more more! Welcome to the site.

KC Action · January 15, 2004

Thanks for the welcome and kind words.

april · January 15, 2004

Talking about night shots, what is the best way to take a picture of the moon? well that is if the moon ever shows back up here and its not cloudy.

I just wne toutside in the cold in shorts to find the moon and it not there.

Andy · January 15, 2004

great shots, guys! here are a couple from me:

bourbon street, 2am

dinner on broadway

cmr164 · January 15, 2004

Shooting the moon....

aprilhite wrote:

Talking about night shots, what is the best way to take a picture of the moon? well that is if the moon ever shows back up here and its not cloudy. I just wne toutside in the cold in shorts to find the moon and it not there.

On a tripod. Don't worry about stopping down for DoF as there isn't any need or for stopping down to reduce distortion as you are only using the very center of the frame.

I took the following handheld with a 100-400IS set at 400mm at 1/60 but 1/100 would have perhaps given me a better raw image. I was using the image stabilizer so I got away with skipping the tripod but a tripod is usually a better choice.

That one was taken from Moorea and the next from Cannes so almost the other side of the world. There are some slight differences in visible surface and I do not know if those are angular differences from latitude/longitude or because the Moorea one was in Jan 00 and the Cannes one was in Oct of 01.

april · January 15, 2004

Col pics of the moon. I can't wait for th emoon to show back up here in georgia so I can play with taking pics of it.

Thanks for the info

fish · January 15, 2004

andy wrote:

great shots, guys! here are a couple from me:

bourbon street, 2am

ECTOPLASM! :yikes

wxwax · January 15, 2004

april wrote:

Col pics of the moon. I can't wait for th emoon to show back up here in georgia so I can play with taking pics of it.

Thanks for the info

Atlanta - but I won't complain about the cold or clouds, not with the weather they're having in the NE.

wxwax · January 15, 2004

andy wrote:

great shots, guys! here are a couple from me:
bourbon street, 2am

Andy, your shots remind me of Mike Werner's shots, and the gallery of Paris someone linked to.

That is, color is a big part of the photograph's reason for being. The first shot is all about night lights and vibrant colors. Many of the Paris shots (I gotta go looking for the link) were more about color than anything else... at least to me.

The reason I mention it is that I tend to think of a photo as being about an object or a shape. For some reason, when I'm wandering about with the camera, my eye responds to that stuff, but not to colors. And yet I see many, many wonderful photographs in which color is the immediate statement. It's something I'd like to work on.

KC Action · January 16, 2004

Andy, what a great city street long exposure. The colors are so vibrant and varied. Great shot. cmr164, fantastic moon images. I have not had any luck shooting the moon. This time of year we get such beautiful full moons just after moonrise.

AceRph · January 16, 2004

Here's a shot taken Christmas Eve. The steam is from a sulfur spring that popped up in the parking lot of the Paso Robles Public Library after the earthquake on December 22, 2003. It was in the 20's. The tree was covered with a thin layer of ice. The newspaper reported yesterday that the spring is flowing 400 to 500 gallons per minute.

cmr164 · January 19, 2004

hutchman wrote:

Nice!

I have had only limited experience with night shots. I tried some timed exposures on last spring and came up with this -
Hutch

Water at night can be really fun. Somewhere around here, I have a slide with a 15 minute exposure (stopped down) of Yosemite, but for now... Here is a 1.0sec exposure of a beach at Bermuda.

KC Action · January 19, 2004

Wow! Surrealistic. Almost alien looking. Well done.

wxwax · January 19, 2004

I like this crop better, might clone out the corner of the roof.

cmr164 · January 19, 2004

wxwax wrote:

I like this crop better, might clone out the corner of the roof.

Hmmm.... I think the balcony adds a necessary reference. I might want to crop from the left...

wxwax · January 19, 2004

Knowhatcha mean about the balcony providing reference... for me its starkness under the light is so extreme compared to the softness of the sea that it's jarring. Maybe if it was toned down?

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