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- georgesIII0
I'll try tonight and see if I can post in the 10pm thread
- forcetwelve0
the light drawing images can be made by a bulb exposure, with a flash fired either at the start or end of the exposure.
- vaxorcist0
bulb! ....... for long, sloooow shutter .. like 1 minute or more.... aperture determined by testing, even F11 may work with a long enough shutter speed....
...camera on GOOD tripod... I'd use a self timer...
and the VERY STILL meditating guy while somebody else waves the flamey things around and moves enough themselves so they are not in one place long enough to show up in the picture........
....and be willing to try it 3 or 4 times to get it right... first one usually either sucks, or is better than all later attempts....
- Hombre_Lobo0
yeh george long exposure will do it.
Be sure to focus the correct distance, of where the light that you are drawing with will be, before you hit the shutter. this will give the sharpest results.
You can use a flash to illuminate the scene at the start of the exposure, then for the rest of the time remaining on the shutter draw with light.
Also the picture you posted in the first pic to me looks like long exposure, single shot without bulb or flash and not shopped.
heres a few from my first plays with long exposure (when i got my first good cam the GF1) -
its heaps of fun! :D
- Really cool pics, there's a cemetery near my place which would be nice to experiment there, if I don't get arrestedgeorgesIII
- thanks! they're not great, but fun.
thats a cemetery on the left in the first pic! good luck!Hombre_Lobo
- Hombre_Lobo0
LX3 is such a cool little cam.
- jaylarson0
- at about 15-30 seconds you'll begin to see some star trails, depending on how wide your lens is and where you are on the urth.jaylarson
- urthjaylarson
- I've been looking for a long time and still not snail trailgeorgesIII
- that site blocks right-click, and looks like hot-linking images. boo!jaylarson
- dubbya0
Piggybacking on georgeslll's thread here. Does anyone know of a good cheat sheet out there for settings such as aperture, shutter, iso, meter under various light conditions, and the function of each of those settings? Should I be okay with auto settings vs. manual?
Thanks to the qbn photography department.
- plash0
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- vaxorcist0
Sunny 16
Shutter Speed at close to ISO (ISO 200 = 200th shutter or so)
Aperture at 16 in sun, 8 in shade, 5.6 in deep shade, 2.8 inside by shaded windows, F1.8 at 60th or 30th inside with no flash and only house lights
Sunsets and such... F8, or F5.6, shutter close to iso if aiming at sunset, if aiming away, F2 to F2.8 with shutter at 1/2 iso
backlight portrait, with subject in shade and bright light behind them.... F2.8 at 1500th or so....
- beautiful0
is shopped, doesn´t look like a single exposure?
- CyBrain0
It's not a long exposure, the flames wouldn't be that sharp.
- depends on how slow you move the fire around the subject:
http://images.travel…jaylarson
- depends on how slow you move the fire around the subject:
- beautiful0
depends on camera, most slrs give manual control, as in exposure time not limited.
- jaylarson0
bulb mode with remote shutter
- georgesIII0
I've a LX3, in manual mode, the time exposure goes up to 60 sec,
- fxone0
Jaylarson said it. BULB is the way to go.