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Lets grab our cameras, explore and indulge in creativity. The assignment of the week (05/14-05/20): "Time Lapse".
The idea is to post a pair of pictures that has a primary subject set in different times, mood, lighting, weather conditions, or anything along the lines left to your imagination.
The rules are simple...
- Fresh pictures
- Image size no more than 800 px wide (if posting in portrait mode, then 500 px wide).
- Have fun, we already have ~Assignment Discussions~ to share our experiences, have discussions and provide feedback.
Meson - if you step up (go down in f value) you'll lose even more detail. Your shot is overexposed that's why there's not enough detail. Step down (f16 or f22) and expose for the moon, not the sky, even slightly underexposing. Bracket the shots in 1/3 increments and see what it does for you. I also don't know how far your lenses can take you...zoom can only do so much.
Not really, just haven't experimented with night photography much so it was trial and error pretty much.
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Originally Posted by bibit612
Meson - if you step up (go down in f value) you'll lose even more detail. Your shot is overexposed that's why there's not enough detail. Step down (f16 or f22) and expose for the moon, not the sky, even slightly underexposing. Bracket the shots in 1/3 increments and see what it does for you. I also don't know how far your lenses can take you...zoom can only do so much.
Thanks I'll try that next time. I was using a 40 - 150mm zoom lens at full zoom.
Not really, just haven't experimented with night photography much so it was trial and error pretty much.
Thanks I'll try that next time. I was using a 40 - 150mm zoom lens at full zoom.
With moon, you could get away with relatively fast shutter speed. You could try spot metering too. Here's a slightly cropped shot taken a few days ago and even though I had only 200 mm zoom (35 mm equivalent) to play with, the aperture was wide open (f/2.8, the max my camera lens allows at 200 mm) and the resulting shutter speed was 1/2s. This is yet another shot taken a day or two later with a different camera, this time at 420 mm zoom (35 mm equivalent), f/11, 1/15s.
I'm going to try your idea tonight if the clouds finally clear out (they messed up my plans to take full moon shots on Saturday).
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I'll get working on it.
About 22 Hours Apart...
