7 posts tagged “long exposure”
Here are a couple of long exposure shots with the new cam. Noise performance is really great compared to my old D200. The last two photos were taken WITHOUT long exposure noise reduction.
Verdi bridge (look closely for the train), 12 mins, f/8 @ ISO 200 with the fisheye, daylight WB.
Robb Drive Overpass: 6mins, f/8 @ ISO200, noise reduction off, 12-24mm
Since I haven't had a camera for a while, I figured I'd start to post some older photos I never got around to editing.
Be sure to click through to the full version as Vox overshaprens the image when it resizes it.
Here is one from July:
In the spirit of Hot August Nights, a national classic car event held anually in Reno, here is a time lapse from way back in September 2006 that Fielding, Mike and I did. We used a Nikon D2x, a manfrotto superclamp, an articulating arm and Mike's '73 Nova. The drive takes us through downtown reno at night.
There is a pretty cool hood perspective in the later portion of the video, but I must warn you that this was just thrown together with no editing (notice the ccd dust spec, sorry).
While I'm sharing clamped car shots, here is one of my 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The camera was set to fire 1 second exposures continuously with the cable release locked.
Comments welcome.
Tonight, Kris and Mike joined me for a pretty fun shoot. We went towards the edge of town to shoot more for my "urban vs wilderness landscape" series and ended up missing the light that I wanted. Instead I played around a bit with some slow exposures and flash painting after the sun had set.
Here is one of my favorites (be sure to click through to the full sized version):
Here is another shot from the night:
A few weeks ago, Fielding and I decided to drive to Mono Lake/ Bodie, CA after work to stay the night, do some long exposures and shoot Bodie (old ghost town) the following morning. We froze our asses off in my jeep and watched the movie 300 on a laptop while our cameras exposed for just over an hour at about 3AM. Amazing movie!
Unfortunately, there were some major setbacks:
1.) We didn't know where the good tufa was (now I know its all on the south side of the lake) so we took some crazy dirt road, parked behind some bushes and began walking around the lake at about 1AM and completely lost the jeep. It took us an hour to find it following dirt roads in the dark.
2.) During the above, my feet got freaking soaked and it was cold
3.) After settling on a not-so-ideal spot (facing a bad part of the sky with very few stars and non-interesting tufa), we hauled all of our heavy 4x5 gear out there in the cold and set up (focused with flashlights, etc) only to find out that I had forgotten the film!
Luckily, we had also brought our Nikon D-SLRs and were able to get in one exposure before the moon set (minutes after we completed our exposures). I'm kinda glad we didn't have to deal with the reciprocity on the 4x5s, we would've been out in the cold forever.
We finished the movie and the exposure at 4AM, then woke up at 5:30am and had about 20mins of first light before the sun rose. Still looking for the good tufa, below is one of the few shots I was able to get before the sun completely broke the horizon.
We also filmed a timelapse of the sun setting during the drive from Reno, NV to Carson City (stay tuned for that), above is a shot from behind the scenes.
It seems like I've been shooting something just about every night! Tonight I shot part of a UNR baseball game (photos pending), and last night my friends Fielding and Mike joined me for some shooting at a remote reservoir. It was an amazing location and the subject matter was right up my alley.
The above photo has very little manipulation. An exposure of 60 secs, F8 and multiple pops from an SB-800 flash. The white balance was set to flash to achieve the ambient orange color from the city lights glowing over the hills.
Goofing off, Mike and Fielding race up the face of the dam. Multiple pops from the flash at 1/2 power during the exposure reveal the race.
Comments definately welcome.
Here is a 30 min exposure of one of the most interesting landmarks around the Reno area: The American Flats near Virgina City. The shot was underexposed by about 2 stops (bad guess on exposure and the moon set during the exposure) therefore is a bit contrasty, but I think it came out decent.
Specs:
Nikon D200, 1901 secs (31 min) @ f8, ISO 100, 12-24mm, miniature pocket bendy-pod
For 2 hours (12-2am), Fielding and made a single exposure with our 4x5s and two exposures with our digitals while watching Snakes on a Plane via laptop to keep us occupied during the long exposures. Please note that Snakes was one of the worst movies ever, making it an instant cult classic.
