Desert Movie Prop

[GBO25]

This "church" is actually a movie prop that was built for an art house type movie called "The Goddess of 1967". It was a movie about buying a 1967 Citroen DS 19 car. The DS 19 was often called goddess simply because de-esse in French is goddess. The movie was made in and around Lightning Ridge in about 2000.


By Day




By Night

[Wavelength]

Both images are excellent; my only suggestion is that you could have taken the same shooting position in #1, as in #2, because in the #1, the cross mark bearing stone is covering the sight a bit too much
Regards

[Shadowman]

Nice captures.

[IzzieK]

Both beautiful shots...You mean you stayed the night?

[GBO25]

Both images are excellent; my only suggestion is that you could have taken the same shooting position in #1, as in #2, because in the #1, the cross mark bearing stone is covering the sight a bit too much
Regards

I agree about the position of the rock in the first shot but during the day there was a pile of rubbish and partial old car body in full view so I "hid" it behind the rock. Didn't matter at night because I just wandered around shining a small LED flashlight on the parts I wanted exposed. Didn't stand still long enough to have myself in the image.

Both beautiful shots...You mean you stayed the night?

No, didn't stay the night Izzie, just went back out to it to do the shoot. Had to be careful because there are a couple of 4-5 foot wide mine shafts around the area.

[Chrisclick]

Both shots are great, Graham. Love the long exposure and the resulting streaky stars of #2. How did you light the house?

Mind your step out there!

[Manfred M]

Thanks for the explanation in your second posting. I was wondering about the positioning of the church in the first image as your night time composition looks a bit stronger. Now that makes sense as any other angle would have prevented you from blocking those objects from the camera's view.

Falling down mine shafts at night would not have been a good thing...

[Dave A]

Two really nice shots. The second is exceptional.

Dave

[GBO25]

Love the long exposure and the resulting streaky stars of #2. How did you light the house?

Mind your step out there!

Thanks everyone.

Chris I had the camera on manual and set the f stop and ISO and put the shutter to bulb mode. I used a wired remote shutter release which I used to lock the shutter open.

Then I set off with an LED torch and quickly shone it on the cross on the rock. I switched it off and walked over to the church where I turned it back on and casually walked around shining the light on all the areas I wanted exposed and at an angle that would hopefully give me good detail. I was careful to keep myself between the torch (flashlight) and the camera so that the bright light wasn't exposed in the image.
When I was finished I switched the light off, walked back to the camera and closed the shutter.
There was a crescent moon in the sky so I did have a little light to navigate by when the torch was switched off.
It was a bit experimental and I took about 10 shots at slightly different apertures to get it right.

[IzzieK]

Thank you for this explanation, Graham...I had not used my Bulb mode for a long time as I had not had a chance and so I googled it yesterday in between work (pasta making session) and I am surprised at what it can do. I meant to practice it tonight with a flashlight but it is freaking cold out there...(for a warm bloody person like my little grandchild, that do not like snow!) it snowed the first time here yesterday...hope today will be good ... I will try earlier just before dark sets in...