Night photograph

I use pixelpost 1.5 and it is amazing. Just get/design a better template!

Well, I think that's what mine is. And I had to tinker with the template to make it work right. I added some EXIF to what was already there. But it seems to not handle the categories correctly, and that I'm afraid, is beyond my expertise. ;)

Once I finally get back to school(this sunday) and have some more free time I will be designing a new template...I am not to fond of mine now.

Well, I kind of like your "Out of focus" one. Is that PixelPost?

Yeah that is pixelpost with a modified(slightly) Sugar template. The new one I am going to do is going to be along the same lines but I want a darker background around my images...

Night shots are all about 1) Time - The longer you can keep the shutter open the more ambient light will be let into your camera, but you NEED a tripod and 2) Subject - Fire, lights, water, etc. add a dimension to night photography that only gets realized after the shot is complete.

The ambient glow that one gets during a 30+ second shot is one of my favorite techniques used in photography.

Well, it seems my second night shoot was more productive. The hard part was focus. I guess I should have trusted the infinity setting on the lens.

And if you are in a rush to take more photos in one night or want a nice glow to your images become obsessed with the phases of the moon. Full moons are the best time to get that almost day light feel to night photos but bad for star trails etc because it blows them out by over powering them. So if you want nice long star trails wait for no moon or definitely not a full moon. Or expose it right and take multiple shots and blend them in photoshop to make it appear to be longer star trails then one photo could of been.

Perfect example is Mute*
http://www.mute.rigent.com/pics/nightstartrail.jpg

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Originally Posted by Miles

Another night shot, this time 5 exposures combined so that the star trails are visible without overexposing the image. As the stars are so bright you can stack the images in photoshop and use the 'lighten' blend, then only the star trails will show through. Each exposure is about 2 1/2 minutes.

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What kind of light setting do you use? I noticed mine and Daves had that yellow cast, and just realized it's probably the sodium lights showing wrong with a daylight setting, rather than florescent or incandescent.

If you shoot in RAW you can always play with the white balance in PS or other RAW conversion tools before anything else. So far I have always shot with AWB(Auto White Balance) and it does a great job.

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Originally Posted by EVPohovich

Night shots are all about 1) Time - The longer you can keep the shutter open the more ambient light will be let into your camera

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if you are doing star photographs and dont want star trails then its about getting the most light in the shortest amount of time.

low fstop higher iso and just enough time to get what you want visible.

i learned this the hard way

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Originally Posted by mrkvavle

if you are doing star photographs and dont want star trails then its about getting the most light in the shortest amount of time.

low fstop higher iso and just enough time to get what you want visible.

i learned this the hard way

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Absoposilutely.