Night Time Shooting

I want to see your night time photography!!

I have been sparked lately by many types of photography, but always like to do long exposure nighttime shots.

Post em!!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81...n/IMG_2994.jpg

Same tower diff angle

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81...n/IMG_2997.jpg

I hate when little emo kids take pictures of something and put it in B and W or whatever and call themselves photographers.

Simple shots like those are what it's all about:D

Great shots Patrick!

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Originally Posted by 2kdime

I hate when little emo kids take pictures of something and put it in B and W or whatever and call themselves photographers.

But simple shots like that one are what it's all about:D

Great picture Patrick!

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Thank you dude!!!

I have been slaving over this cam cam since I got it, trying to better myself.

Tutorials, tips, tricks, MORE tutorials....LOL

Pat what speed did you take this at??

Ed, believe it or not, I shoot all my nightime at iso 100....yup thats right! LOL

I really dont like the grainyness that anything above ISO200 gives you.

I shot those all at F2.8...I know its wide open, but that lets in every bit of light that I can get.

Super cool man.

What is the bright white spot in the second picture? I can't stop going back to look at it...I keep scrolling up to lookk at it...the light...it has some...sort of hold...on me....



:gj:

That would be an oil barrack off the coast. I thought it gave a nice balance to have it smack dab in the middle.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

Ed, believe it or not, I shoot all my nightime at iso 100....yup thats right! LOL

I really dont like the grainyness that anything above ISO200 gives you.

I shot those all at F2.8...I know its wide open, but that lets in every bit of light that I can get.

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I agree about the grainyness.

I imagine you used a tripiod. What was your exposure time?

What type of camera & lens setup are you using?

Yeah it was a tripod for sure...exposure time I think was one was 25 and the other was 15. The lights on the pier forced me to reduce shutter time.

As far as Camera and lens

Just a Rebel XT and a Sigma 50mm f2.8 DG Macro Lens.


I am drooling over over the Canon 55-250mm.

I need some reach damnit! LOL

Very cool, that second shot is fantastic.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

Ed, believe it or not, I shoot all my nightime at iso 100....yup thats right! LOL

I really dont like the grainyness that anything above ISO200 gives you.

I shot those all at F2.8...I know its wide open, but that lets in every bit of light that I can get.

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I like your shots. Long exposure night shots bring out the best color.

If you don't have one look at getting a remote shutter release. They have cabled ones and remote ones. I bet you'd have a blast with bulb mode.

is that the ventura beaches :)

Nice pics Pat. Very Nice actually!! What time did you take those at?

super shots Pat why don't you and Lydia drive out for a weekend so you can take shots of the collection.

Thanx everyone. It was about 10:45, 10:30 on the conservative side. Pitch black, when I took those.


Tim, would love to come visit again, you know that!

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

I want to see your night time photography!!

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The first four are from a night time shoot around a friend's condo which is in an uptown area near a train station...

http://www.cubeskin.com/bpnet/night/n1.jpg

http://www.cubeskin.com/bpnet/night/n3.jpg

http://www.cubeskin.com/bpnet/night/n6.jpg

http://www.cubeskin.com/bpnet/night/n8.jpg


Obligatory firework shots...

http://www.cubeskin.com/bpnet/night/n5.jpg

http://www.cubeskin.com/bpnet/night/n9.jpg


These two I painted (long exposure with secondary light ie. iphone flashlight app, led flashlight)

http://www.cubeskin.com/bpnet/night/n2.jpg

http://www.cubeskin.com/bpnet/night/n7.jpg

Love the first pic, Patrick! It reminds me of the post-impressionists.

Very cool shots!

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Originally Posted by ctrlfreq

These two I painted (long exposure with secondary light ie. iphone flashlight app, led flashlight)

http://www.cubeskin.com/bpnet/night/n2.jpg

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Thats my favorite one! wow! Deep colors and I feel like that picture tries to tell you a story or something like that. :O:gj::gj:

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

I want to see your night time photography!!

I have been sparked lately by many types of photography, but always like to do long exposure nighttime shots.

Post em!!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81...n/IMG_2994.jpg

Same tower diff angle

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81...n/IMG_2997.jpg

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Those are great shots :)

really, nobody else has nighttime shots to show off? night photography & long exposures are the BEST!!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/...30c42c4a1c.jpg

Pacific Central Bus Station, Vancouver BC

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2464/...519674530b.jpg

Granville Street Bridge, Vancouver BC

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/...85d0704208.jpg

Burrard Street Bridge, Vancouver BC

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2558/...6dfefa9b9f.jpg

Lamborghini, parked at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Center, Vancouver BC

now come on people, let's see those night shots!

OP, those shots you started this thread off with are GREAT!

Please note, these are old.

Eh, I like this picture, but it was very difficult to do. I was using one of the original digital cameras (it was a brick!) and working very hard to hold the camera steady and it still turned blurry.
Oh well. I like it anyway.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...2/DSC01577.jpg
And well, this is sort-of night time at dusk. Same crappy camera though.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...2/DSC01903.jpg

Old pics but you guys have inspired me to do more night-time shots-

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g9...rks/4th013.jpg

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g9...rks/4th021.jpg

I'll have to try some different iso settings- I usually go for aperture priority. And these I could have done less during post processing too, I was very new to the camera & photography in general.

That one of the tree reminded me of this one - no post-processing other than the crop and re-size, just a minute-long exposure with some funky light in the background...

http://www.cubeskin.com/bpnet/night/greentree.jpg

Here are a few of mine:

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...e/pier2new.jpg

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...Ze/shrimp2.jpg

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...oiZe/fire1.jpg

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...oiZe/fire3.jpg

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...oiZe/fire7.jpg

This is all I got...


http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...lady/1new2.jpg

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http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...lady/1new2.jpg

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THAT IS BADASS PICTURE! :O wow....bet you got little scared when you took that. Trying to take a picture of lighting is so hard...

Thanks! That there is a one in (literally) a hundred crappy shots.

Summer of 08 we got a lot of gorgeous thunderstorms here. The only thing preventing me from taking killer photos was wind and rain. I got a lot of pictures of piddly strikes, but that one was definitely the best, even if it just a tad over exposed.

This is the clearest strike we got, but very small.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...slady/new1.jpg

Ive got a bunch of night shots on my flickr accound, Ill post em up here once I get out of class

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

I am drooling over over the Canon 55-250mm.

I need some reach damnit! LOL

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I'm drooling over the Canon 100-400mm L. Someday, it WILL BE MINE!!

Alright, here we go. Hopefully the links come through. I'm not attaching any because the full size versions are 10MP as well as high quality. For a given picture (once you click the thumbnail), the little icon with a small and larger square gets you the full size. The little camera icon will show the EXIF data.

Lightning: http://fire-eyes.org/gal/v/ob/n/wthr/l/

Fireworks: http://fire-eyes.org/gal/v/ot/var/fw/ms/

What I found interesting in both situations is that high ISO wasn't needed. And especially in the case of lightning, could work heavily against you. The hardest aspect to me is nailing the focus. I'd dial in my other settings and go for the most distant light I could get. The camera allows me to live view and then zoom in 10x, at which point I'm able to fine tune the focus. I still haven't learned my lesson and gotten some gaffing tape to HOLD it there though... I suppose a few more knocks when things are really going crazy will teach me.