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Saturday, 9 April 2011
::next try::
light photography~~
1. Saint-Tropez(Geishaboy500)
For this sparking image taken under a south coast pier, the photographer employed a Speedlight flash, a pair of Maglites, LED light sticks, coloured gels and absolutely no Photoshop trickery. The photograph is taken straight from the camera, using exposures of up to thirty seconds.
2. Ultimate (Anotherfaceintheclouds)
This stunning image is an example of light art performance photography (LAPP), which is a high-end evolution of light graffiti. The image is a single photograph capturing the movement of specially developed coloured lights and luminous tools.
3. Light Graffiti (Guille Pagano)
Guille Pagano’s shot captures a snaking trail of light meandering through some beer bottles.
4. Goku (Artwork Rebel)
Goku is a Japanese manga character whose special abilities include firing energy blasts formed by chi energy. In this image, the photographer uses light graffiti to give a plastic Goku figure this superhuman ability.
5. Light Graffiti (Eric Castro)
Eric Castro paints a pair of angel wings on his model in this photograph.
6. Flashlight Fight (Artwork Rebel)
This image comprises six images layered in Photoshop, capturing ‘fighting’ flashlight trails.
7. My Bike (Habi)
In this image, the photographer has painted the frame of his bicycle using the front light.
8. Light Painting with LEDs (Tom Arthur)
Tom Arthur used green and purple LEDs to paint the spiralling trails in this image.
9. Eleven-Hour Star Trails (Josch Hambsch)
Josch Hambsch achieved this awesome photograph by aiming the camera at the sky and leaving the shutter open for an almost all-night exposure of eleven hours. The stars’ trails reveal the spinning motion of the Earth, in this instance the South Celestial Pole as seen from Namibia.
10. Astronaut (Collin) (Epioles)
The light graffiti in this picture is painted with a sparkler.
11. Light Painting (Philip Bitnar)
There’s a certain spooky ambience in Philip Bitnar’s experiment in light painting.
12. Light Painting (Laughtonb)
The photographer employed a night-time ‘camera toss’ technique to produce this stunning Spirographic abstraction.
13. Light Painting with a 3pi Robot (Donjd2)
This photograph was made using a twenty-second exposure to capture the path of a Polou 3pi Robot following a course laid out with black electrical tape. The robot is fitted with red, blue and green LEDs to create the light trails seen in the image.
14. Painting Scissors with Light (Sociotard)
A pair of scissors jammed into a mirror and a sparkler were used to make this intriguing long exposure photograph.
15. Fire Sparks (Stillwellmike)
A slow shutter speed reveals the movements of glowing embers from a roaring campfire in this image.
16. Wine Fairy (Dimbledar)
This stylish sepia shot follows painted light around a glass of red wine.
17. Wire Wool Poi
This long exposure photograph captures a fire dancer spinning wire wool held in chicken wire cages, which are dipped in paraffin and set on fire.
18. Among Us (Ben Matthews)
This beautifully composed woodland shot is made using red and blue lights.
19. Interstate 35 Long Exposure (Nikolai O)
The stillness of the wire fencing contrasts nicely with the streaming lights of the traffic on the interstate freeway in this long exposure shot taken near Burnsville, Minnesota.
20. Cold Cathode Light Paint (Maticulous)
In this fish-eyed view, a two-minute exposure records the movements of
Friday, 8 April 2011
Shutter Tips At Night
DSLR camera settings and tips for taking city landscapes at night
One of the reasons enthusiasts purchase SLR digital cameras, is to take night photographs in and around the city without them resulting in blurred or shaky images. However, as you'll soon find out, it's not as easy as setting your digital camera to automatic and shooting the image. Listed below are tips that will help you take city landscape photographs after dark.
Digital SLR settings for night photography
- Set your camera to shutter priority. On a Canon DSLR you turn the top dial to TV. Whereas on some SLR models, like the Nikon D40 for example, shutter priority is displayed as the letter S. If your camera doesn't have TV or S then refer to your camera manual.
- If you have a tripod handy, set the ISO to the lowest setting your camera will go. For example, Canon EOS 400D will go as low as 100 ISO, whereas a Nikon D40 will go to 200. If you don't have a tripod, look for something you can rest your camera on. For example a stone or brick wall.
If you absolutely need to hand hold your camera, the only choice of SLR settings you have for night photography is to set it to P (Program) and up the ISO to 800 - 1600. You can then skip over step 3 below. Note: This usually isn't recommended for high quality night shots.
- For high quality night shots, the shutter needs to be set at a slow speed. This allows the camera enough time to let light in to the sensor, without increasing yourISO setting. How slow depends on the time of night and how dark it is. There is no set shutter speed to suit every situation. However I've found if you take one photograph at 10 seconds, one at 20 and one at 30. Then view the image on your LCD display and see which one shows the most light. From there you will be able to judge how slow the shutter speed needs to be for the rest of your photo's on that particular night.
The mistake many photographers do, is to set their shutter speed too fast. For example the night shot below was taken with a one second shutter. As you can see, this wasn't long enough to allow the light in to the camera's sensor.
I recognised this instantly and reshot the photograph using a slower shutter speed of 15 seconds. This time the SLR camera was given more time to allow the light in to the sensor, resulting in a clearly focused night shot that you can see below.
Mackay Harbour Marina Australia
Camera: Canon EOS 400D / Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Exposure: 15 sec (15)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 33 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Program: Shutter priority
Flash: Flash did not fireWhy this night shot workedThe shutter speed was set to a slow 15 seconds. Therefore I was able to keep the ISO set to a high quality 100. Of course shooting at such a slow speed also required a sturdy tripod. You won't be able to hand hold a digital camera for 15 seconds without shaking.
If you don't have a tripod handy, the other option is to up the ISO to 800 or 1600, then keep the shutter speed fast. However, the quality of the night shot will be grainy or noisy, and is usually not recommended.
Here is another example of a night photograph, this time the shutter speed is 30 seconds.
Sydney Australia
Camera: Canon EOS 400D / Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Exposure: 30 sec (30)
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 17mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Program: Shutter priority
Flash: Flash did not fireWhy this night shot workedThe ISO was kept to a high image quality 100, while the shutter speed set to a slow 30 seconds. The night photograph was taken from a 260 meter-high Sydney Lookout Tower where tripods were forbidden. Therefore I sat my SLR camera on a binocular stand.
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