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10/04/2004 03:29:22 AM · #1 |
I just love night time shots. This was taken at a function that I was shooting on the weekend. Any comments or critisism?
I'd appreciate any input...and show me your own night shots!
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10/04/2004 03:33:47 AM · #2 |
| Nice one, the photo would look really spooky in B&W, give it a try. I don't have many night shots, but you could find mine in my bio. |
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10/04/2004 03:36:57 AM · #3 |
Love night shots as well. I'm not as good as that though. Well done!
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10/04/2004 03:56:21 AM · #4 |
Your night shot is awesome and I also enjoy doing night shots as well.
Here's one of mine:
I don't know if you would count this as a night shot, but it was taken in a shop window at night. |
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10/04/2004 03:57:18 AM · #5 |
Trying things out at the moment. Hope you don't mind me posting this here as well.
What do you think?
Would love to hear how I could improve on this, especially the blown moon.
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10/04/2004 04:11:05 AM · #6 |
i guess if you tried underexposing by maybe 2 stops, the moon and the light would be less blown and the sky would still be nice. By doing so you'd also eliminate some of the distracting foreground.
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10/04/2004 04:12:59 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by tyt2000:
Nice one, the photo would look really spooky in B&W, give it a try. I don't have many night shots, but you could find mine in my bio. |
It looks cool in B&W but i prefer the nice blue colors in the original....
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10/04/2004 04:15:41 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by Gurilla:
Trying things out at the moment. Hope you don't mind me posting this here as well.
What do you think?
Would love to hear how I could improve on this, especially the blown moon. |
Well, for starters, I would raise your shutter speed to something like 1 second to a half a second and see what the results are. That should improve it a lot. The kind of metering and what you meter off of is also important. In this shot, there are just two small points that reflecting light, and they account for just a small portion of the frame in general. If you're using a centerweighted averaging metering mode, then most of what the meter is reading is dark and so will try to open things up with a slower shutter speed and/or wider aperture. I think this is what's causing your blown highlights. What you may want to try is using a spot meter to get a reading off of them moon and a reading off of the darker sky, and then averaging them yourselves and using that as your exposure. Hope this helped. |
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10/04/2004 05:04:30 AM · #9 |
divernick,
I really like the crispness of your shot, the blues and whites work so well together! Great work.
Here's one of my night shots-
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10/04/2004 05:09:40 AM · #10 |
A quick shot I took while on my way for a midnight snack tonight..
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10/04/2004 05:42:40 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by Quadrajet:
divernick,
I really like the crispness of your shot, the blues and whites work so well together! Great work.
Here's one of my night shots-
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I love that shot, especially the flashlight rays behind the building...
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10/04/2004 06:42:15 AM · #12 |
I love night shots. :)
Just a couple favourites from this summer:
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10/04/2004 06:57:17 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by Olyuzi:
Originally posted by Gurilla:
Trying things out at the moment. Hope you don't mind me posting this here as well.
What do you think?
Would love to hear how I could improve on this, especially the blown moon. |
Well, for starters, I would raise your shutter speed to something like 1 second to a half a second and see what the results are. That should improve it a lot. The kind of metering and what you meter off of is also important. In this shot, there are just two small points that reflecting light, and they account for just a small portion of the frame in general. If you're using a centerweighted averaging metering mode, then most of what the meter is reading is dark and so will try to open things up with a slower shutter speed and/or wider aperture. I think this is what's causing your blown highlights. What you may want to try is using a spot meter to get a reading off of them moon and a reading off of the darker sky, and then averaging them yourselves and using that as your exposure. Hope this helped. |
Metering.. Well there is a thought! lol... I just guess at the moment.
Yes it has helped... Thanks
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10/04/2004 09:55:43 AM · #14 |
The sunny f16 rule can be used with the moon since it's a sunlit object. This rule gives you a starting point of f16 at 1/ISO. Adjust from there.
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11/01/2004 12:41:05 AM · #15 |
re: Original post by Gurilla
the tonal range required to capture both the moon in detail as well as the objects in darkness in that shot probably exceeds what your camera can capture and you'll have to prioritize what you feel is more important and meter based on that -- whether it's the moon or that objects in the dark. I would personally use center-weighted metering (vs. spot-metering or matrix metering) and either aim for the moon, or an area in darkness, lock it, re-compose, and fire. if you aim for the moon, center-weighted metering should at least reveal a circular outline, instead of that amorphous glare. you can then try to brighten the surrounding areas in post-production by altering the tonal curve. I would hold the bright values up to about 1/3 of the tonal range, and curve up the remaining.
the alternative is -- of course -- faking the moment and exposing twice (shooting two images). expose one image and meter off the moon (spot), and expose another for the darkness (center or spot). then in post, you can merge the two.
hope this helps.
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