Night photography

BuckSnort · Jan 11, 2012

I have been playing with some night shots lately.. It's different for sure..I need a bulb I can only get a 30 second exposure..

I'd like to see some of yours, I really like the shots of snow and stars, post them up if you got them..I'll start..

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Brute · Jan 11, 2012

Here is a couple from the Christmas Ships in Portland Or. 2011

hunterbob · Jan 11, 2012

Here are a couple from Denver last week.
Bob

http://BobMolderPhotography.smugmug.com/

gaetz · Jan 12, 2012

LAST EDITED ON Jan-12-12 AT 09:06AM (MST)[p]Here's a sampling of some of my stuff....

Lightning Storm this summer...

Some star trails at Lake Powell.

Focused directly at Polaris and let it run...

Herriman Utah fire a couple of years ago

Last months eclipse

All these shots were in Bulb Mode using a remote. If you find yourself getting into night photography, you will really need to look into a camera with Bulb Mode. 30 second exposures are great and you can do alot with that, but if you want to get into star trails and other stuff, 30 seconds will only get you so far. In fact, it takes about 30 seconds before you can actaully see the stars "move". You could get into "stacking" multiple 30 second images but you'd need to get some good editing software.

Night photography is very, very cool and I wish I had more time to get out to do more. I don't know how old you are or where you live, but if you live in a fairly remote are you should be golden....I don't have that luxury. I'ts very fun to be able to load your picts up on the PC and see how they turn out.

Best wishes on your night stuff and Practice, practice, practice. PM me if you have any specific questions.

TRH

http://gaetz.smugmug.com/Nature/Tim-and-Raineys-Lightning-Page/18542256_zgLP2N

http://gaetz.smugmug.com/Disasters/Herriman-Utah-Fire/13845664_jd9t6j

tx_packmule · Jan 12, 2012

c3 · Jan 12, 2012

This kind of fits with the theme of night time shots.

Setting moon 11 Jan 2012
http://youtu.be/vokVrrdgTik?hd=1

Cheers,
Pete

archerycrazy · Jan 13, 2012

TRH,

Very cool pics. I LOVE the Polaris/star shot! How long did you let it sit to get that much movement in the stars?

archerycrazy · Jan 14, 2012

LAST EDITED ON Jan-14-12 AT 07:32AM (MST)[p]I've wanted to spend the time to do some more night photography, but it is still on my to do list. Here's one I took during the Virgin River flooding in St. George, Utah in December 2010. Thirty second exposure.

Riverdark by gao_er_fu_qiu, on Flickr

redrabbit · Jan 14, 2012

LAST EDITED ON Jan-14-12 AT 08:41AM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Jan-14-12 AT 08:40?AM (MST)

This was taken New Years Eve.
25sec, ISO100, f/5.6.
The moon was fairly bright, so I was able to reduce the ISO and close the aperture some.

Caught this about an hour before sunrise the morning before when both the stars were still visible.

You are welcome to visit my Photo Gallery here http://www.plateaulightphotography.com/