Anyone play around with night photography?

[analog]

Mark those are some awsome photos! Thanks for sharing the link.

 

[mhardy6647]

Yeah, any awesome photos emanating from around here are his, not mine! I love optics and photo hardware, but I have no eye for composition. The boy's got talent...

 

[jocko_nc]

It snowed last night...

 

[old_tv_nut]

It snowed last night...

Looks like next year's Christmas card to me :yes:

 

[mhardy6647]

wow...
details, please, of that photo?

 

[jocko_nc]

Wet snow had just stopped falling, around midnight. Lighting is from the streetlights only. Sodium vapors that give off that crazy amber light. My front yard looks up a hill into some trees and the streetlights.

Pentax K20D at ISO 800. 3.00 second or so exposure on an old mystery (though Takumar quality) 1970's lens. Beck / Japan 135 / 2.8 lens at 4 or 6. Take a dozen shots at different settings and keep the one that is best. I thought for sure this one would be overexposed, but it turned out to be the keeper. Who knew?

 

[lisa_cali]

Out of convenience I guess I like taking night shots on business trips since I get bored in the evenings.

Atlanta...

Seattle...

Back home in SF

 

[chillwolf]

Nice shots Lisa! What camera did you take them with? They are nice and sharp with good balance in the lighting. :thmbsp:

 

[lisa_cali]

Thx Chillwolf! They were from last year so they would have been taken with my older Canon XTi.

 

[Aldehyde]

Really like that shot on the Embarcadaro.

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument:

Photo taken by using flashlight and spotlight to expose the frame.

Nikon D90 w/ 18-55mm kit lens (bottom) or 50mm (top)

 

[mhardy6647]

I like the shot with the older Benz in it... deeply surreal.

 

[tubino]

I didn't have a tripod of any kind, so framing was largely determined by the placement of trash cans.

 

[old_tv_nut]

Great! any details of equipment, exposure, etc?

 

[tubino]

Great! any details of equipment, exposure, etc?

Was that directed at me? Nikon D200, gingerly perched on a trashcan with a mitten used to try to change angle. I used fairly high ISO, and timed it to start the exposure 5 seconds after pushing the button so it would stop moving. I played around and set the exposure manually, but would have to check -- my guess is about 1 to 1.5 seconds.

 

[old_tv_nut]

Thanks, tubino - I was looking at how well the bulb colors showed up and wondering if the exposure was adjusted manually.

 

[Rick Vestal]

This is the first time I've ever checked out the photography forum... But I wanted to contribute since I'm a huge fan of night photography. I mostly shoot a Nikon D100 with a Nikon 60mm D lens but for most of these, they were shot with an old Sony DSC-F707. Click each for a larger version.

Colorado Springs as seen from the Univeristy of Colorado.



Christmas a few years ago spotted this house driving home. I just thought it was really well done.



Fireworks in the backyard.



Lightning from the front yard. I just waiting until a storm and just kept firing 30 second exposures until all cards were filled. Then went inside to see what I had captured.



Magnavox tube amp from an old console I have stored.



Monument Valley Park, Colorado Springs.

 

[ricohman]

Since I'm a police ident member and most of my work is at night..........
Here is a pic I took of the heavy oil upgrader in Saskatchewan.
Cannon 20D, 17-85 lens, F11, 6 seconds.
The hard part was the temperature. With the wind chill it was -48C (that's about -64F for you U.S folks).

 

[NicoR]

Here are a few I took last week the day that I bought a 'new' camera (20D). First two handheld, the third leaning on a railing.

This one is of the avenue by my house, I have the same photo undeveloped on a roll of film, but taken while it was snowing. NYC firefighters or cops might recognize the bar (18mm, 1/30, f/3.5, ISO 1600)

This one is of a house on my block, where it so happens that the guy who helped me get the camera lives. (18mm, 1/8, f/3.5, ISO 1600)

This one I took looking down the stairs at the vestibule, which has a little (30W?) light in it. (18mm, 1/2, f/3.5, ISO 800)

Right now its snowing pretty heavily, so I'm going to go out and try to snap a few pictures. I love the way the sky turns orange when the snow reflects the light o

 

[fmueller]

edited to include technical details for old_tv_nut

Sydney, view from the opera house.

Minolta XD-7, Tripod Cullman 2901, MD 28mm 2.8 @ f8 in aperture priority mode. Shutter speed was approximately 2s. I widely bracketed (up to 20s), but as so often, I preferred the exposure that the XD-7 had suggested. Kodak Gold 100 negative scanned using Minolta Scan Dual II film scanner. Perspective control used in Photoshop.

London, Houses of Parliament

Minolta XD-7, MD 50mm 1.4 @ f1.4 in aperture priority mode. Camera propped up with tissues on the wall of the Thames embankment. Fuji Velvia 50 slide film scanned using Minolta Scan Dual II film scanner.

Twelve Apostles, Australia

Some old Minolta manual focus camera with some matching old lens. Forgot which ones, as well as all other technical details

Southern Cross

Minolta XD-7, Tripod Cullman 2901, MD 75-200mm 4.5 @ f4.5. Shutter open on B for about 20min. Slide film - if memory serves Fuji Sensia 100. Stars added in Photoshop to mark the beginning of the trails of the 5 brightest stars, which belong to the Southern Cross - a famous constellation that for example is part of the Australian and New Zealand flag.

 

[willyrover]

A few noisy black & whites.