nightOwl
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Post your reflection images
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jroovers
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How the heck did you manage this one!?!?! Unbelievable.
JaYbIrD1969
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A whole lotta luck! A wicked storm had pounded all evening and I followed it as it passed. I pulled up to a parking/launch area at a local lake. It was something like 10pm. the air was dead still. I rigged my camera onto my car window mount and just sat with the shutter open. I got a few others but this was the beesknees :rollface:
jroovers
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How long of an exposure was it?
It is amazing what your sensor will pick up on those long exposures. The one I posted above, all you could see was stars... the afterglow of the sunset didn't register to the naked eye and was only there on the long exposure - 25 seconds I believe.
JaYbIrD1969
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Long exposure photography is something I would love to do more of. Some of the star trail images with el capitan in yosemite are just insane. Its not that complex as you know judging by your camera handywork.
The lightning shot I posted was a 63 second bulb exposure. I sat with the shutter open til there was a strike and then repeated. i like to run long exposure noise reduction, so the camera has a processing period equal to the exposure length. which sucks cause several times I sat there while it processed and missed some good strikes.
this was by far the biggest strike of the session and I was lucky enough to capture it.
Thats extremely nice that you captured a sunset glow that was invisible to the naked eye!
jroovers
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Long exposure photography is something I would love to do more of. Some of the star trail images with el capitan in yosemite are just insane. Its not that complex as you know judging by your camera handywork.
The lightning shot I posted was a 63 second bulb exposure. I sat with the shutter open til there was a strike and then repeated. i like to run long exposure noise reduction, so the camera has a processing period equal to the exposure length. which sucks cause several times I sat there while it processed and missed some good strikes.
this was by far the biggest strike of the session and I was lucky enough to capture it.
Thats extremely nice that you captured a sunset glow that was invisible to the naked eye!
It isn't that complex, you are correct. Just a tripod really is all that is needed. And some patience while the shutter is open! I always forget the exposure rule though... whatever your focal length x 5 or divided by 5 or something like that to prevent trailing (as you can tell I can't recall lol). I'm picking up a used 10-22 mm for my 7D, so eager to try out some more shots like these. I haven't tried the high ISO noise reduction feature in my body, but definitely going to try it out. That start scene above is heavy on the colour and luminance noise reduction in post. I'm heading to banff and jasper in June, some pretty black skies out there apparently with amazing stars, looking forward to trying it out further.
JaYbIrD1969
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The Long exposure NR is good and bad. the good outweighs the bad for me tho. The benefit is your image is fantastically sharp and noise free. As you know, dark areas of an image are most prone to noise. What I believe the camera is doing is taking a second exposure without openning the shutter so its a pure black image. It then overlays the two images to cover the noise in dark areas... something to that effect. The downside is the the camera is literally 'locked' for the same duration your exposure was. So you have to wait til it finishes to take another picture.
NewbyReefer
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Reflections In The Eye
Looks pretty good to me!!!!!
NewbyReefer
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One of my favorit threads.
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