Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Christmas lights/ Night photography


Karen and I went out to do some night photography. Practice. We went armed with Tripod, stool, boxes for supporting the cameras.
Frosty here was shot at 3200 iso f/2.8 for 1/200 sec. Hand held. Added a seventies finish to it. And a stary texture to the background.
Oh I love this one. This tree was so cool being under lit by these hanging globes.
100 iso f/18 for 15 sec. Have to mount this one on a tripod. Ok here is the great thing about closing down the aperture. This takes the light longer to get in. And the iso is as low as possible. So look at the individual lights. This is how you get the starburst effect with lights. I have a couple of sunsets that have the sunburst look to them because the iso is low and the exposure is long, and the aperture is small.

See all the detail because it is such a low iso. Lots of time to get the information into the camera. This just fascinates me.
iso 100 f/2.8 for 1/2 sec. hand held
For the editing. I played with it plenty. I took out the red glow off the ground. It was a bit over whelming. Also brightened the exposure around the lights. Then sharpened the front light.
This last one was hand held also 3200 iso f/2.8 for 1/125 sec. Just sharpened the front of the present. So get out there. SLR cameras on manual. YOu can do it.

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