Night Photography

[OlliL]

Love it!
What Film? Or digital?

Edit: Strobist? Looks like a nice light-setup in the first 2 pictures.

 

[Hamel]

Love it!
What Film? Or digital?

Edit: Strobist? Looks like a nice light-setup in the first 2 pictures.

Digital. I'm not a huge fan of reciprocity failure and color shifts when dealing with 15-30 minute exposures. No strobist or blending, just trying to use available lighting to my advantage.

 

[jcrutcher]

How long was your exposure on #2?
Great shots all of them. I understand Mars will be close to the Earth on August 27th, I want to get a few shots of that.

 

[Finder]

How long was your exposure on #2?
Great shots all of them. I understand Mars will be close to the Earth on August 27th, I want to get a few shots of that.

Hoax.

http://www.snopes.com/science/astronomy/brightmars.asp

Here is what is happening--scroll down:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance/

If Mars is actually going to be at its closest approach this August, which it isn't, you would need to work at focal lengths of around 4000mm or greater to photograph a very small red disk rather than a point-like star. You would also probably want a tracking mount used in astronomy.

 

[martin s]

If it were up to me, I would only shoot at night.

Very nice, I like the first one especially.

martin

 

[3rdtrick]

Great night photos everyone. I haven't been doing as much as I like but here is a recent one.

M9 and I believe the 35 lux pre-ASPH
Pete

 

[urban_alchemist]

All M9 @ 800ISO, Noctilux f0.95; here in Tel-Aviv. A lot of loneliness in this city...

 

[Arjay]

Wow - there's a lot of really impressive street shots in this thread! Thank you helenhill, urban alchemist, zeroeseight, tom.w.bn, buzzardkis, menos, semrich and coelacanth for your beautiful night visions.

Munich's most popular kiosk at the bank of the river Isar is open most of the night on summer weekends.

Digital capture; enhanced with a combination of two white balance settings - daylight for sky and sky-lit parts (shadows), tungsten for artificially lit parts of the scene.

 

[mel]

love this thread.
keep 'em coming.

 

[gdi]

Some old shots (reposts)...

Canon 7 Kodak 400UC with Calculight meter...

 

[kg4nih]

King Street "Old Town" Alexandria, Virginia

OM-1n, Zuiko 24/2.8, Tri-X 400 (EI 1000), Rodinal 1+100

 

[Hamel]

How long was your exposure on #2?
Great shots all of them. I understand Mars will be close to the Earth on August 27th, I want to get a few shots of that.

Thanks. If I recall correctly it was right around 35 minutes.

Very nice, I like the first one especially.
martin

Thank you.

Here is another recent favorite.

 

[stupid leica]

Canon 35/2 on M2.

FH000023 by Chris.jpg, on Flickr

CV 35/1.4 Nokton MC, Ikon

048_30 by Chris.jpg, on Flickr

 

[ederek]

From a Summer Solstice gathering.

So so proud of my friend. Final treatment last week:

Tossing small trees and uncut logs into the fire

Fire was about 1/3 final size here and throwing off some heat and light..

 

[user237428934]

Old industry site converted to a museum with beautiful lighting.

 

[ped]

Lovely pic Tom.

 

[jcrutcher]

San Francisco

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[jcrutcher]

 

[tstermitz]

I love the time between dusk and dark when the sky gets that deep purple-blue color. I call it "purple hour". My "mid-purple-hour" rule is 4-4-4 (1/4s f/4 and ISO 400), which is the moment the sky meets the brightness of city street lights (sky at 90 degrees away from the sunset). Only problem is, using this 4-4-4 rule on digital the lights are a little bit blown out in the highlights. Slightly earlier, I back off to 1/8s and I do better with the highlights

"Northbound" (DSLR):

"Lightstacks" (DSLR):

Tom Stermitz
http://photokinesis.info

 

[surfer dude]

This one is from Fiji a couple or so years ago:

Mamiya 645, 45mm lens, APX100