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jeff_L
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 Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:29 pm Post subject: Re - Night Photography |
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These night shots are really awesome, I'm amazed at how sharp every picture is!
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The Pook
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:58 pm Post subject: Re: Re - Night Photography |
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| jeff_L wrote: | | These night shots are really awesome, I'm amazed at how sharp every picture is! |
Yours or someone else's?
Good tripod helps heaps. |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:48 pm Post subject: Re - Night Photography |
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Here's one of last night's stars.
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Dug
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:38 pm Post subject: Re - Night Photography |
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Love the position of the house in that shot Pook !
Jeff are those your photos of from the net ? |
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petero
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 7:50 pm Post subject: Re - Night Photography |
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| Constellation of Scorpio at the top of the pic. |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 4:29 pm Post subject: Re - Night Photography |
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| Thanks Dug. I finally bought a remote control yesterday, so will be keen to experiment with some longer exposures and star trails like yours when I get time. |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:34 am Post subject: Re - Night Photography |
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Some winter Solstice at Scottsdale photos
our house, in the middle of our street...
Forrest Eco Centre
Southern Cross over a gum tree
Eco Centre again
Starry starry night...
Eco Centre with Mt Stronach behind
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The Pook
Joined: 01 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:45 am Post subject: Re - Night Photography |
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DUG - what causes the purple light at the top corners in some of these? It's like light is leaking in somehow. Or is it a (very slow) lens flare? Do I need to use a hood on it?
Scottsdale Cemetery at Winter Solstice
And the centre of town isn't much less dead on a Monday night:
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Dug
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:58 pm Post subject: Re - Night Photography |
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Interesting  You have a totally different eye for things to me.
Seeing how others look at a scene always fascinates me.
Try taking a good torch or spotlight with you to paint light over subjects like the gravestones. It is also interesting to walk through the photo with a torch or flash and play with light.
Too bloody cold to be out at night anyway !!!!  |
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Dug
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:59 pm Post subject: Re - Night Photography |
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The purple looks like hot pixels the sensor tends to warm up during long exposures what camera are you using ?
another benefit of film over digital  |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:20 pm Post subject: Re: Re - Night Photography |
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| Dug wrote: | Interesting You have a totally different eye for things to me.
Seeing how others look at a scene always fascinates me.
Try taking a good torch or spotlight with you to paint light over subjects like the gravestones. It is also interesting to walk through the photo with a torch or flash and play with light.
Too bloody cold to be out at night anyway !!!! |
It was above zero, not very cold. Probably about 5 or 6.
I only did it because the local ABC was asking for pics of the shortest night.
Good suggestions. I have done some with multiple exposures of me before. I was parked in a lane next to the old part of the cemetery and I couldn't be bothered getting over the fence to walk around (and then discovered the gate when I was leaving, doh!). I also forgot to take the flashlight with me, and it needs a new battery anyway, but I tried to set up where the occasional car headlights would hit the trees in the background at least. |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 9:06 pm Post subject: Re: Re - Night Photography |
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| Dug wrote: | The purple looks like hot pixels the sensor tends to warm up during long exposures what camera are you using ?
another benefit of film over digital |
Unlike some, I can only afford one DSLR! 
It's my NIKON D40X.
It only seems to be with the 18-55mm lens but that could be coincidence as I didn't use the 55-200 much last night.
There were also these strange lines that only became visible after equalizing the image in photoshop:
What could cause that? Something wrong with the sensor array? Or possibly electromagnetic interference? No it's not an electric fence. |
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Dug
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:42 pm Post subject: Re - Night Photography |
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Hmmmm I am not sure they look like noise
what exposure and iso were you using ?
the D40 is a great camera but like everything it has limitations. |
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Dug
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:55 pm Post subject: Re - Night Photography |
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Pook PM Sent check your in box  |
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The Pook
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:35 pm Post subject: Re: Re - Night Photography |
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| Dug wrote: | Hmmmm I am not sure they look like noise
what exposure and iso were you using ?
the D40 is a great camera but like everything it has limitations. |
It was a 139 second exposure at f/7.1, 18/27mm focal length, ISO 100. The noise filter was not turned on. Actually, as I said in my PM, I now suspect it was just something on the lens. It doesn't appear in other shots since. |
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