Great post, Geoff. I've been having fun after sunset too, I should have something for the astrophotography thread soon. Have you ever tried to get stars in your dusk shots? It's amazing you handheld that. Did you have a post/IS to lean on?
Great post, Geoff. I've been having fun after sunset too, I should have something for the astrophotography thread soon. Have you ever tried to get stars in your dusk shots? It's amazing you handheld that. Did you have a post/IS to lean on?
That one, and the slightly more blurry one I took before it, were totally hand held. After that I started using a telegraph pole to lean up against. I deleted several and ended up with 4 I liked. I guess I slightly prefer this one to the others. As it got darker the lights looked redder somehow and PP doesn't seem to make it any better.
Thanks for the comment. :
BTW - this is another from the same set, Still prefer the first one though.
Look at this sky - I heard the cry!
But the surrounding scenery is not much cop out the back of our house
- still - I had a stab at it - albeit with handheld awfully slow shutter speeds!!!
Got to go for it though!!
This one with the wide 17 - 70 hand held in the back garden...
~ and this one with the 28 - 200 hand held hanging out the bathroom window...(Ok so I put a bit of frame around it - got to show some effort I suppose!!)
INFO
Let me see (quickly opens the exif data) - at first I got a blurred shot - then the first one was bumped to
ISO 400 and -0.7 to get 20th sec @60mm (90 equiv) - then hanging out the bathroom window I got a bit
more daring - with a focal lenth of 80 (120mm equiv) I risked 1/3rd sec - no - nothing to lean against!!
so it was a matter of hold steady - also it was before the bottle of wine I just polished off tonight!!!
I did take an even more zoomed in shot - but it doesn't look any more interesting - so I shan't bother posting...
All in all considering it's not a fantastic view in the first place - I was quite pleased -
noaw where is that necsht bottle....
Last edited by Geoff Chandler; 02-18-2008 at 01:16 PM.
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