Post Dark Photography

[dubaiphil]

Quite an extreme dynamic range here. When conditions are right and the moon in low it has a beige cast (due to the sandy atmosphere) which matched well with the minaret:

It's an obvious blend, but moon and minaret were shot at the same time and place, rather than taking a separate shot of the moon and pasting in

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

This one is 1 sec 100iso f4 @78mm.

Not too impressive here but was there and hard because this is a very busy place. Hopefully the colour is right but I remember the bridge posts were grey.

Good,even very good!The people,for me,are essential there.Maybe,I said maybe,because I'm not quite sure if 0.5sec could be rendered better those people.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Just to prove how hard this is; maybe the shadows are too deep because ordinary folk don't have calibrated screens.

0.6 sec 100iso 200mm f4 and I'm pretty sure my tripod isn't staying still since this is best out of 8.



I also wanted to get the London Eye in but that is a step too hard.

Yes!

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Phil those shot are amazing, my daugther spent a month there 2 yrs ago, as part of her teaching program. Steve great images of London, look forward to seeing more, Big Ben is just great and the eye look good in it.
Well I went out to try to shoot Healey Fall in the moon light, shot a number of images trying to find the best method, what I ended up doing was the load a number in Photoshop and had it stack them as if was making a pan. Now the thing was the exposures, f-stops and ISO were all over the place 8 seconds to 60 seconds, f8 to f11 and ISO100, 400,800. Just loaded eight images in and waited to see what would happen, because some were quite dark, some medium lightness, and some brighter they worked, added some layers, cloning, crop and I think the experiment turned out quite well.
Well you guys will be the judge.

Cheers:

Allan

OOOO...oooIt's impossible!

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Quite an extreme dynamic range here. When conditions are right and the moon in low it has a beige cast (due to the sandy atmosphere) which matched well with the minaret:

It's an obvious blend, but moon and minaret were shot at the same time and place, rather than taking a separate shot of the moon and pasting in

A beauty!

[arith]

Just for comparison since it doesn't belong here; but I took a hand held test shot to see if it was going to be worth my while waiting for a gap in the traffic at 1/20 78mm 800iso and f4.



I can see what you mean Radu, I was mostly dodging buses and cars and maybe even faster still is needed; thankyou for your kind words, they are very encouraging.

[arith]

Quite an extreme dynamic range here. When conditions are right and the moon in low it has a beige cast (due to the sandy atmosphere) which matched well with the minaret:

It's an obvious blend, but moon and minaret were shot at the same time and place, rather than taking a separate shot of the moon and pasting in

This is superb

[arith]

Phil those shot are amazing, my daugther spent a month there 2 yrs ago, as part of her teaching program. Steve great images of London, look forward to seeing more, Big Ben is just great and the eye look good in it.
Well I went out to try to shoot Healey Fall in the moon light, shot a number of images trying to find the best method, what I ended up doing was the load a number in Photoshop and had it stack them as if was making a pan. Now the thing was the exposures, f-stops and ISO were all over the place 8 seconds to 60 seconds, f8 to f11 and ISO100, 400,800. Just loaded eight images in and waited to see what would happen, because some were quite dark, some medium lightness, and some brighter they worked, added some layers, cloning, crop and I think the experiment turned out quite well.
Well you guys will be the judge.

Cheers:

Allan

Like Radu says; this isn't possible

[rtbaum]

Ok, now I want to try this!! I will be camping on Green Bay of Lake Michigan this weekend. I have checked on moon rise data for this location, it will be a full moon over the bay. My choice of lens would be between the 90mm macro or 18-270. Any suggestions for settings?

[arith]

I think Allan is the best one to answer that randy

[Polar01]

I shot these with a 16-85mm DX on a D7000, it was set at 31mm so 46mm on FX. I used a flashlight to highlite the water only to focus then turned auto focus off, only light source was moonlight.
I used six shots that I put into Photomerge and let it merge them: the image information is as follows:
1) f8 8 sec at 100 ISO
2) f11 20 sec at 100
3) 60 sec
4) 30 sec at 400 ISO
5) 30 sec at 800 ISO
6) 60sec at 800 ISO
As you can see all over the place, it is a good thing I do not know what I am doing, as someone would surely say that you can't do that. Also sunset was at 7:52pm most of the shots taken used were taken starting about 8:30, shot over a spand of 10 minutes, I do not know why that lenght of time. As I said, I didn't know what I was doing as this was only a test run hopeing to return on Friday night with a better idea of what to do and how to do it.
I hope this helps some.

Cheers:

Allan

[Cantab]

Allan, a great picture (Healey Fall).
As an aside, this is one of the first photos where I like the flowing water look. I suppose I'm a fan off the sharp jumping water, crashing waves, etc. look (or however one should describe it).

[rtbaum]

Wish me luck!!! It'll be a full moon rising over the lake at just about sunset (only 8 minutes apart), I may have use my ND to get long enough exposure.

[arith]

Good luck randy

[arith]

Does this clock look alright; it was blown but I had the idea of borrowing the one above.

[Polar01]

Steve: really nice image, great night sky good and sharpe, yes the clock is a little blown out but sometimes you just get waht you get. It could be swapped with the one from above, however it maybe a little sharper than the one in this one. Been looking at a number of your images on your London thread, very nice if only you could get rid of all those people, sometines they can add to the image, but not often.

Cheer:

Allan

[arith]

Cheers Allan; but the point was that it is already swapped with the one above. It didn't fit exactly and I skewed it, all new stuff to me, and I used a mask to brush around.

The original hasn't even got a face and I didn't notice until I saw it on my pc.

[Polar01]

This is another image I took up at the falls, that night, the first one is more of how it actually looked in the moonlight. this one is more whimsical in nature. This is more of how I saw it in my mind. I did it by using two layers of the sane image, (I open my images from RAW as smart objects, it allow me to go back into the RAW image and make changes) this allowed me to process one more for the sky and the other for the falls. I then added a layer maske to the falls layer and blended it into the lower layer. Once this way done I did a (Alt+Ctrl+shift+E) to create a merge visible layer than used Nik Veveza to let me apply control points in those areas that I wanted to bring up lighter.
Hope you like it, it was fun shooting and as I processed it, I kept thinking of other ways to envision it.

Cheer:

Allan

[Polar01]

Steve: My bad, guess it got lost in translation from English to Canadian. Still a great image.

Cheers:

Allan

[arith]

This is yet another stunning image Allan.