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08/22/2004 10:13:05 PM · #1 |
While on vacation last week, I saw an opportunity for some nice long exposure shots of a shoreline. Being without a tripod, I improvised and build a mound with loose rocks on which to lay the camera. I set it for 10 seconds and snapped away. Being dark, I had little reference of what I was capturing. To my pleasant surprise, nice large sea tumbled rocks appear in the foreground nicely framing the shoreline in the background. I don't know if this is a well known technique or not, but I was very happy with my discovery. I later tried to take a few with the flash to highlight the foreground. This are some of my favorites (in diminishing favoratism)
Menton by Night #1
Menton by Night #2
Menton by Night #3
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08/22/2004 10:15:35 PM · #2 |
Nice 'discovery', i really like the second one!
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08/22/2004 10:20:53 PM · #3 |
| Great. I like them in the order 1, 2 3!! |
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08/22/2004 10:23:40 PM · #4 |
| Very, very well done. Especially the first two... |
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08/22/2004 10:28:01 PM · #5 |
Nice job! I love #2 as well. The perspective is great. Isn't great when 'bad' things turn out this well? :-)
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08/22/2004 10:38:47 PM · #6 |
| Paolo, what happy memories you bring forth...your second photograph is so nice. Several years ago my French wife and I hosted her sister and husband to a MARVELOUS lunch overlooking the beach of Menton. Still have GRIPPING video camera scenes of the very scenic habitues of the Menton beach. I can still see Alfredo, our waiter, hurrying across the beach road with our marvelous pasta lunch. Thank you. |
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08/22/2004 11:45:52 PM · #7 |
Hi! Yes, I stumbled upon the same type of composition here:
It's definitely a cool way to frame a shot in some instances :) |
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08/23/2004 03:49:53 AM · #8 |
Do you guys use a double-exposure setting? (2 snaps). How do you get so much light from the background without compromising with the foreground's flash splash effect? WHen i try to do such things, i usually lose a lot of detail/lighting/colours on the background...
I've been wanting to shoot some specific shots with a sunset in the background, while using set lightings on the foreground for the model and props... This is exactly what i'm looking at achieving.
Some help would be greatly appreciated! |
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08/23/2004 03:57:30 AM · #9 |
I simply set my camera for "landscape" mode, and turned the flash on. I think I had it set for a -0.5 EV (exposure compensation). The flash shouldn't affect the background at all, since the distance is too great.
I think the key is to not get too *much* of the foreground in the shot.
Here are the settings I had:
Shutter Speed - 1/700 sec
Aperature - f6.7
ISO - 100
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08/23/2004 04:16:15 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by RedOak:
Do you guys use a double-exposure setting? (2 snaps). How do you get so much light from the background without compromising with the foreground's flash splash effect? WHen i try to do such things, i usually lose a lot of detail/lighting/colours on the background...
I've been wanting to shoot some specific shots with a sunset in the background, while using set lightings on the foreground for the model and props... This is exactly what i'm looking at achieving.
Some help would be greatly appreciated! |
What you want to look in is so called Fill in Flash. Basically, the idea is that camera has a long exposure time that all dim backgrounds etc are exporsured and the flash blips in a bit in the end of exposure highlightning the foreground. In D70 some modes with some meteringmodes swithes the camera in fill in flash -mode. There are propably equivalents for other cameras!
Here's a fine tutorial:
//www.apogeephoto.com/may2004/jaltengarten5_2004.shtml
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08/23/2004 08:43:47 AM · #11 |
Jem,
I'm glad I could rekindle old memories. The sights at Menton are certainly nice, sadly, I only stopped by for the evening this time around.
RedOak,
I did not use double exposure. The area was very dark so i simply took a 10-second exposure shot and used the flash to fill in the foreground. The flash fired as soon as the shutter opened. The rest of the time, I was just absorbing the light from the dim background.
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08/23/2004 02:23:36 PM · #12 |
| Thanks a bunch guys! I did some little testing and i think i get the idea now. Its much better then it was. That D70 is amazing, but tricky ;) |
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