{"id":150,"date":"2011-03-29T08:02:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T08:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/?p=150"},"modified":"2011-05-04T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T20:00:17","slug":"experiments-in-night-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Experiments in Night Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently been inspired by to experiment with some night photography, predominantly through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenightskye.com\/\">book <\/a>by\u00a0Lance Keimig.<\/p>\n<p>I have taken plenty of night photos before (here I mean, taking photos of things by night, not of the night sky), for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/photography\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_itemId=416\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/photography\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_itemId=577\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/photography\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_itemId=544\">this<\/a>, but this has always used light which was available at the time. A key difference with what I wanted to do was try to use the ambient lighting and enhance this with additional lighting &#8211; flashes, torches etc. where you can&#8217;t get your desired exposure<\/p>\n<p>Broadly my other aims were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limited or no post processing and retouching<\/li>\n<li>Achieve good composition<\/li>\n<li>Try something new<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some of the results:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"411\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/photography\/gallery2\/minislideshow.swf\" flashvars=\"xmlUrl=http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/photography\/gallery2\/mediaRss.php?g2_itemId=983\" quality=\"high\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" name=\"minislide\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" align=\"middle\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Key equipment used: Timer Remote, several LED and Halogen torches, Flash manually triggered off camera.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I think I got several OK shots but I wasn&#8217;t completely happy with any of them. I had to retouch several of the photos for excessive lens flare, correct white balance and had to adjust exposure (I intentionally tried to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminous-landscape.com\/tutorials\/expose-right.shtml\">shoot right<\/a>) on several of the images, but generally managed to limit post processing.\u00a0I wasn&#8217;t happy with the composition of either of the light sphere photos. I\u00a0definitely\u00a0tried some new stuff (car photography, light spheres)!<\/p>\n<p>Lessons learnt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Concentrate more on composition &#8211; it can be hard to gauge composition in bad light and in awkward conditions. Focus more on this.<\/li>\n<li>Use High ISO to judge exposure &#8211; this was a really useful tool. General rule, on an ISO 100 native camera if you set the ISO to 6400 and expose for 1 second, this is\u00a0equivalent\u00a0to a 1 minute exposure at ISO 100 (at the same aperture). I could probably use this more for composition too!<\/li>\n<li>Practice more with illuminating subjects with a torch &#8211; it&#8217;s hard to get this even, especially over large subjects.<\/li>\n<li>Use a Timer Remote that works and doesn&#8217;t have a faulty cable so you have to fiddle with it constantly &#8211; I&#8217;m getting the unit replaced!<\/li>\n<li>Most of all, have someone to help out &#8211; thanks to Darren for this! It really helps to have another pair of hands, especially when illuminating with multiple sources and also for providing creative suggestions!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently been inspired by to experiment with some night photography, predominantly through a book by\u00a0Lance Keimig. I have taken plenty of night photos before (here I mean, taking photos of things by night, not of the night sky), for example, this, this and this, but this has always &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}