The Landscape Thread

[TheWengler]

Here's one of the Capitola Pier this morning. It's a 4 minute exposure...

[devin]

Very cool Wengler! You've posted a couple of these that are really making me want to try some Bulb mode shots

[TheWengler]

Very cool Wengler! You've posted a couple of these that are really making me want to try some Bulb mode shots

Thanks Devin. If you do decide to give the longer exposures a try be sure to get your exposure right before the final shot. Nothing worse than standing around for 10 minutes in the cold only to botch the exposure. I do this by raising ISO all the way and shooting with the lens wide open. This way I can approximate a 4 minute, f/16, ISO 200 exposure with 1 second, f/4 ISO 3200...I think I did that math right... Anyway, it can save you some time since long exposures take double the shutter speed.

[eddie haskell]

My barn shot....



And I call this one "Jet"




And, "The Creek"

[bass_sears]

Wengler,

Really great shot! Great use of the long exposure, but let's face it a long exposure is just a gimmick if you don't also expose correctly, compose correctly, and find a good subject, all of which you did here.

I've enjoyed doing some bulb exposures but have to say a big thank you for the exposure test technique, I'd never thought of just doing the math on it to make for a short test exposure, great idea!

-- Bass

Here's one of the Capitola Pier this morning. It's a 4 minute exposure...

[TheWengler]

Wengler,

Really great shot! Great use of the long exposure, but let's face it a long exposure is just a gimmick if you don't also expose correctly, compose correctly, and find a good subject, all of which you did here.

I've enjoyed doing some bulb exposures but have to say a big thank you for the exposure test technique, I'd never thought of just doing the math on it to make for a short test exposure, great idea!

-- Bass

Thanks a lot Bass. It wasn't my idea, just passing it along.

[devin]

Thanks Devin. If you do decide to give the longer exposures a try be sure to get your exposure right before the final shot. Nothing worse than standing around for 10 minutes in the cold only to botch the exposure. I do this by raising ISO all the way and shooting with the lens wide open. This way I can approximate a 4 minute, f/16, ISO 200 exposure with 1 second, f/4 ISO 3200...I think I did that math right... Anyway, it can save you some time since long exposures take double the shutter speed.

Ahh very good point. It definitely would suck to sit there and blow the shot after waiting 6 minutes or more .

[SpecialK]

...I do this by raising ISO all the way and shooting with the lens wide open. This way I can approximate a 4 minute, f/16, ISO 200 exposure with 1 second, f/4 ISO 3200...I think I did that math right... Anyway, it can save you some time since long exposures take double the shutter speed.

At first I thought it was a cemetery of tombstones:-)

Luckily there is no reciprocity failure with digital as there is/was with film. With film, you have to add even more exposure time than just the straight math result for long exposures.

[eddie haskell]

Nekked girls standing on the pier at daybreak....

[eddie haskell]

HELL-O.....anybody here?????

I tried a lil' different stuff today. I caught this old barn by me, down by the beach. Instead of the usual "snap shot" frame with the whole she-bang in it, I tried for some angles as I thought it would give it a different feel as well as highlight the old timber and faded paint....what do you guys think?