166. Night - August 14-20, 2016
Don-
Night...
Photographer Ben Long said " If you want to be good at photography you have to practice and you have to practice
a lot." Night is a huge weakness for me and I need to practice it much more. I need to overcome my laziness.
But I'm 66, retired and taking it easy and these are hard behaviors to overcome.
This picture is a shot of the moon through some grasses behind our house. There is a little bit of blur because
of a slight wind. Its been windy every night this week.
Focal is using a 24-70mm lens and shot at 70mm. Exposure is f/7.7; shutter is 13 second and a low ISO of 200.Don-
Night...
Photographer Ben Long said " If you want to be good at photography you have to practice and you have to practice
a lot." Night is a huge weakness for me and I need to practice it much more. I need to overcome my laziness.
But I'm 66, retired and taking it easy and these are hard behaviors to overcome.
This picture is a shot of the moon through some grasses behind our house. There is a little bit of blur because
of a slight wind. Its been windy every night this week.
Focal is using a 24-70mm lens and shot at 70mm. Exposure is f/7.7; shutter is 13 second and a low ISO of 200.Don-
Byron-
Night slowly drips down on my house. Covering it in inky blackness. As you can see, this weeks submission consists of 2 exposures. Using Photoshop and a layer mask I painted the night photo over the day photo.
Both were shot at f8, Day 1/100 Night 1/13. I set up my tripod in my car and parked it in front of my house. I took the first exposure in late afternoon and left everything setup until it was dark out and then I took the second exposure.
Night slowly drips down on my house. Covering it in inky blackness. As you can see, this weeks submission consists of 2 exposures. Using Photoshop and a layer mask I painted the night photo over the day photo.
Both were shot at f8, Day 1/100 Night 1/13. I set up my tripod in my car and parked it in front of my house. I took the first exposure in late afternoon and left everything setup until it was dark out and then I took the second exposure.
Kevin-
On Thursday morning I woke up at 3:30 AM to drive to downtown Minneapolis and take a photo from the Stone Arch Bridge, which is a pedestrian and bicycle bridge that crosses the Mississippi River next to Saint Anthony Falls.
Arriving there at 4:30 AM, I must say how surprised I was by the number of pedestrians, joggers, Pokemon Go players, etc, already crossing the bridge at that hour!
Using TPE - The Photographer’s Ephemeris app, I knew that the full moon would be setting in the scene, skies permitting, but wasn’t certain exactly where in the scene it would descend. And I was a little worried at arrival, as it seemed well to camera left of where I ideally wanted it. But the descent was almost on a diagonal, as as the moon descend it got closer and closer to the buildings of the Minneapolis skyline.
In my ideal world, using our new WPOTM rules this would have been a slight composite, as there are about 7 stops of difference between the ideal moon detail, and the ideal nightime skyline detail. But that is something I would have needed Photoshop to do, rather than just using Lightroom. And i just don’t have the proper knowledge about how to do something so simple. Something that Don could probably do in moments. So I had to go with this single frame with an overexposed moon. Perhaps next week I can work on it more. This image was captured at 5:39:43 AM, just 5 minutes before what TPE calls Civil Start. In other words, it was still night, fitting the theme. Whew!
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted, 24-70mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens. ISO 100, 1 second @ f/4, auto white balance.
On Thursday morning I woke up at 3:30 AM to drive to downtown Minneapolis and take a photo from the Stone Arch Bridge, which is a pedestrian and bicycle bridge that crosses the Mississippi River next to Saint Anthony Falls.
Arriving there at 4:30 AM, I must say how surprised I was by the number of pedestrians, joggers, Pokemon Go players, etc, already crossing the bridge at that hour!
Using TPE - The Photographer’s Ephemeris app, I knew that the full moon would be setting in the scene, skies permitting, but wasn’t certain exactly where in the scene it would descend. And I was a little worried at arrival, as it seemed well to camera left of where I ideally wanted it. But the descent was almost on a diagonal, as as the moon descend it got closer and closer to the buildings of the Minneapolis skyline.
In my ideal world, using our new WPOTM rules this would have been a slight composite, as there are about 7 stops of difference between the ideal moon detail, and the ideal nightime skyline detail. But that is something I would have needed Photoshop to do, rather than just using Lightroom. And i just don’t have the proper knowledge about how to do something so simple. Something that Don could probably do in moments. So I had to go with this single frame with an overexposed moon. Perhaps next week I can work on it more. This image was captured at 5:39:43 AM, just 5 minutes before what TPE calls Civil Start. In other words, it was still night, fitting the theme. Whew!
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted, 24-70mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens. ISO 100, 1 second @ f/4, auto white balance.
Paul-
This book--and the extraordinary emotional power it’s words still radiate after being in print for well over a half century—was the first thing to pop into my mind when the theme was announced. As is usually the case, I had written a lot for this submission…then decided this was an instance not to.
So no lengthy discourse about what happens in history when men allow monsters to boldly stride among them
A little night reading: 18-55mm lens at 50mm; aperture priority; center weighted metering; -.3 EV, ISO 1250; .5 sec. at f/13. Shot B&W in the tripod-mounted camera. The picture is illuminated by one candle out-of-sight in the upper-right. (I also bracketed to get a picture I felt displayed a decent fall off of the light as you look to the left.) In Lightroom I added moderate grain to the image, and boosted both the luminance and sharpness slightly. In PhotoScape I boosted the middle greys and applied a filter the software calls Bandicoot.
This book--and the extraordinary emotional power it’s words still radiate after being in print for well over a half century—was the first thing to pop into my mind when the theme was announced. As is usually the case, I had written a lot for this submission…then decided this was an instance not to.
So no lengthy discourse about what happens in history when men allow monsters to boldly stride among them
A little night reading: 18-55mm lens at 50mm; aperture priority; center weighted metering; -.3 EV, ISO 1250; .5 sec. at f/13. Shot B&W in the tripod-mounted camera. The picture is illuminated by one candle out-of-sight in the upper-right. (I also bracketed to get a picture I felt displayed a decent fall off of the light as you look to the left.) In Lightroom I added moderate grain to the image, and boosted both the luminance and sharpness slightly. In PhotoScape I boosted the middle greys and applied a filter the software calls Bandicoot.
Jerry-
My night photo was taken a bit after sunset but slightly before my bedtime. For this pose I managed to put my old plastic skull from Target to use one more time and for lighting, used the left over candles from the centerpieces that my daughter used at her wedding reception. Studio was the garage floor and all doors were closed to keep the mosquitoes at bay.
Camera was the A6300 with 55-210 zoomed to 138mm (according to the details in file properties), exposure was 1/160 @ f22, and ISO was sky high at 51,200 for a gritty effect. I had the camera on a small tripod.
Maybe evoking the spiritual realm in photos is my life quest, last week demons in the flames, this week creepy skulls lit by votive candles. Kind of fun.
My night photo was taken a bit after sunset but slightly before my bedtime. For this pose I managed to put my old plastic skull from Target to use one more time and for lighting, used the left over candles from the centerpieces that my daughter used at her wedding reception. Studio was the garage floor and all doors were closed to keep the mosquitoes at bay.
Camera was the A6300 with 55-210 zoomed to 138mm (according to the details in file properties), exposure was 1/160 @ f22, and ISO was sky high at 51,200 for a gritty effect. I had the camera on a small tripod.
Maybe evoking the spiritual realm in photos is my life quest, last week demons in the flames, this week creepy skulls lit by votive candles. Kind of fun.