Posted by Chuck Beatty on February 3, 2007 at 2:52 PM
This is the Beaver Marsh in CVNP last night at 12:45 a.m. We were fortunate to have a full moon and no clouds. I had tried to shoot the rising moon 6 hours earlier, but was stymied by clouds and snow. It was 8 degrees (-5 windchill). I could hear sap popping in the trees across the pond.
This is about a 7-minute exposure and was probably underexposed about 2 stops. Fortunately I was able to salvage something presentable with PS levels. It's not a great image, but it was an interesting exercise. You also get a sense of how much light pollution we have here.
Have any of you been succesful with digital long exposures? The images I took last night had random hot pixels and were generally pretty grainy. I had the long exposure noise reduction activated, but it didn't seem to have much effect. Any thoughts?
D-70s, 18-70 @ 25mm, 440 sec @ f/8, tripod, a lot of PS editing.
Posted by Bernie Kasper on February 3, 2007 at 10:26 PM
Way over my over my limited knowledge of photography Chuck, kudos for trying something I would never even think of, for everything you had to do to get this it's really pretty good.
Posted by Jack Graham on February 4, 2007 at 4:36 PM
Chuck,
Nice...I am glad to see you are not part of the wimp brigade!. Lets do Blue Hen tomorrow AM.
It's hard to tell from this image but as far as this goes it looks like the Nikon handled the long exposure OK noise wise. I was always under them impression Nikon doesn't do long exposures as good as Canon.
I am sitting in O'Hara and will call you tonight when I get back from Portland.
JG
Looks pretty good to me Chuck, though noise and such is difficult to judge at this size. You certainly would have fooled me if you hadn't mentioned that it was a night exposure. It looks like it could have been taken at sunset or sunrise.
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3 repliesThis is about a 7-minute exposure and was probably underexposed about 2 stops. Fortunately I was able to salvage something presentable with PS levels. It's not a great image, but it was an interesting exercise. You also get a sense of how much light pollution we have here.
Have any of you been succesful with digital long exposures? The images I took last night had random hot pixels and were generally pretty grainy. I had the long exposure noise reduction activated, but it didn't seem to have much effect. Any thoughts?
D-70s, 18-70 @ 25mm, 440 sec @ f/8, tripod, a lot of PS editing.
Nice...I am glad to see you are not part of the wimp brigade!. Lets do Blue Hen tomorrow AM.
It's hard to tell from this image but as far as this goes it looks like the Nikon handled the long exposure OK noise wise. I was always under them impression Nikon doesn't do long exposures as good as Canon.
I am sitting in O'Hara and will call you tonight when I get back from Portland.
JG