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Southern California Club Xterra => SCCX Xcursion Pictures => Topic started by: Paul on October 04, 2008, 08:23:23 PM

Title: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: Paul on October 04, 2008, 08:23:23 PM: (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/paul1960/Xterra/DarkXDSC_0120.jpg)

Playing with the new Nikon D90 - that's me parked in my playground with Riverside in the background.
Title: Re: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: Paul on October 04, 2008, 08:29:21 PM: And a bit blue.

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/paul1960/Xterra/TheStarsatNight.jpg)
Title: Re: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: Paul on October 04, 2008, 08:36:03 PM: Pretty impressed with the noise level.

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/paul1960/The%20House/TheDarkNight.jpg)
Title: Re: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: Soylent Yellow on October 04, 2008, 09:33:22 PM: Beautiful pictures Paul. Perhaps you can give me some tips once I learn more about using my new camera.
Title: Re: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: Paul on October 04, 2008, 10:16:23 PM: Quote from: mitch1351 on October 04, 2008, 09:33:22 PM
Beautiful pictures Paul. Perhaps you can give me some tips once I learn more about using my new camera.

Just mash on buttons until something good comes out then repeat. :D

I cut my teeth in film where every lesson or mistake took days to learn as you sent the film out to be developed and tried to remember what you did to the lens' aperture and the shutter. Now I get feed back on a little 3" screen and all the settings are in the metadata to be reviewed later on the big screens to see what works.

Since there was a nice cloud overcast and cooler temperatures I knew is was going to be a clear but dark night (knight?). Bust out the tripod and have some fun with the manual settings on the camera. I had the ISO, or "film speed" cranked down to 200 and all the way up to 6400. At 400 and 800 there was near zero noise. At 1600 enough to notice but still better than most cameras. At 3200 and 6400 the noise was pretty clear. From there I went back down to 200 ISO and started under exposing the pictures a stop at a time until I got some dramatic lighting effects.
Title: Re: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: chad on October 05, 2008, 06:46:48 PM: Very nice pics Paul
Mitch Paul
Title: Re: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: FrankB on October 29, 2008, 09:04:35 PM: Quote from: chad on October 05, 2008, 06:46:48 PM
Very nice pics Paul . . . Mitch Paul
Title: Re: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: Paul on October 30, 2008, 05:47:12 PM: Yeah, these cameras put all kinds of metadata into the photo headers. I use a Windows program called ThumbsPlus to manage my photos and it displays all the metadata.
Title: Re: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: xterrer on April 06, 2010, 07:21:20 PM: Are those taken in the Cucamonga canyon area? ( Up Sapphire from Baseline) Looks familiar.... I used to go up there and up into the Lytle Creek area for a quick fix cause it was like 10 mins from my house...

Jason
Title: Re: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: Ghost65 on April 07, 2010, 11:43:04 PM: TOTM submissions for sure Paul.
Title: Re: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: Paul on April 08, 2010, 10:37:33 PM: I did dark last year ... just a silhouette of the truck with the Las Vegas lights in the back ground and a small LED lantern in the tent. This March I'm trying the big picture out near Soda Lake.
Title: Re: Feeling a big dark tonight
Post by: SuperSlideStyle on April 11, 2010, 06:29:22 PM: Yeah, nice pics. I'm gonna have to sit down with you after an xcursion so you can teach me how to play with my camera too, 'cause I cannot seem to get those kind of night pictures no matter how I try. I have a Sony camera with a Carl Zeiss lens. Paid about $350 for it.