The Night Photography Thread

Chewy734 · 03-05-2011, 11:01 PM

holy crap Rob... that's a SICK pic!

Litos · 03-05-2011, 11:56 PM

i wanna have sex with that shot.

shawrf1 · 03-06-2011, 05:07 AM

Thanks for the much appreciated feedback! Even newbies can get lucky with shots, I guess. Most of the post process I do is trial and error, as that's the way I figure out 'what works.' Building on the left is a performing arts building w/lights rotating between different colors. The rest was the D700 w/Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8 shot at ISO100 in RAW on a tripod with 5-exposures (-2 through +2) on aperture priority (f3.5 - should have used f9 or so), then joined in photomatix. Played with the sliders in LR3 to increase sharpening, clarity, vibrance, NR, fill light, and a little cropping.

remmib · 03-06-2011, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by shawrf1

Here's me taking a crack at night photography w/some HDR (Florida at night, from a recent trip):

S I C K. One of the best pic in this thread.

adrean8j · 03-06-2011, 04:31 PM

Definitely a very nice pic....Good lens for that pic as well!

Weebl · 03-06-2011, 11:59 PM

The moon (obviously) 420mm on a crop body and Mono Lake sunrise last August.

bosstones · 03-07-2011, 02:46 AM

Sweet shot of the moon, weebl. What camera settings did you use? And what lens/body?

xDrive35i · 03-07-2011, 04:25 AM

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Originally Posted by shawrf1

Thanks for the much appreciated feedback! Even newbies can get lucky with shots, I guess. Most of the post process I do is trial and error, as that's the way I figure out 'what works.' Building on the left is a performing arts building w/lights rotating between different colors. The rest was the D700 w/Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8 shot at ISO100 in RAW on a tripod with 5-exposures (-2 through +2) on aperture priority (f3.5 - should have used f9 or so), then joined in photomatix. Played with the sliders in LR3 to increase sharpening, clarity, vibrance, NR, fill light, and a little cropping.

It was smart of you to superimpose a couple of f3.5 shots than one f9 shot because the detail of the lighting coming from each of the buildings would be compromised and made less spectacular by the smaller opening diffraction stars. The superimposed f3.5 shots allow for increased sharpness where an otherwise shallow depth would exist. Really a beautiful shot. Well done.

I just rented a D700 and I'm planning to buy its replacement, the D800, when Nikon decides to finally announce it. The D700 was FANTASTIC. Good choice sticking with Nikon and not falling for Canon.

Weebl · 03-07-2011, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by bosstones

Sweet shot of the moon, weebl. What camera settings did you use? And what lens/body?

Canon 40D, 300mm f4L, 1.4x Mk II ,
F11, 1/60th sec,100 iso and spot metering.
remote release, time delay on a tripod

TL · 03-07-2011, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by shawrf1

Here's me taking a crack at night photography w/some HDR (Florida at night, from a recent trip):

Nice reflections! HDR's def makes an image stands out from a regular one shot long exposure pic.
Here's my HDR

Chewy734 · 03-07-2011, 06:35 PM

nice Tim!

FDfranklin · 03-07-2011, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by shawrf1

Here's me taking a crack at night photography w/some HDR (Florida at night, from a recent trip):

Hey, that's where I work everyday!!

Incredible shot.

Have any larger versions I can set my desktop to?

xDrive35i · 03-07-2011, 09:27 PM

Anybody have a photo-to-URL converter (not tinypic) that doesn't compromise the quality and resolution?

NDeedOne · 03-08-2011, 12:44 PM

Here are 2 that I took a while back:

NDeedOne · 03-08-2011, 01:00 PM

Just came across 2 more, different than above.

shawrf1 · 03-08-2011, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by FDfranklin

Hey, that's where I work everyday!!

Incredible shot.

Have any larger versions I can set my desktop to?

I can re-export... what resolution?

135M2011 · 03-19-2011, 11:20 PM

What settings was the lightning shot with?

adrean8j · 03-19-2011, 11:26 PM

^^^If you using Firefox just right click and go down to EXIF data:
28mm@f/22, 30sec, ISO100

is what it says he used....

TL · 03-23-2011, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Chewy734

nice Tim!

thanks!

here's it with the "super moon"

The1 · 03-23-2011, 03:13 PM

that's a sweet shot.

TL · 03-23-2011, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by The1

that's a sweet shot.

thanks, it's 4 photos merged into one.
the bridge is bracketed 3 shoot and moon is just 1

Chewy734 · 03-23-2011, 04:06 PM

sick shot Tim! Is that a UFO at about the 8 o'clock position from the moon?

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