last week we had our night photography "lab". I was able to get some nice photos of the arboretum and surrounding area.
this is an image of the dark area exposed for as long as possible wide open and with the film sensitivy setting set to 320 ASA. if I wanted to longer exposures I would have to use the "bulb" setting, but I don't have a remote shutter release for my camera. I like how the sky and water is lit up almost as if it was daytime, but yet there is the glow from the street lamps that illuminates the grass and trees/bushes.
I thought this was a cool shot/angle, although the handrail detracts a little from the image. they probably would not have been all too happy, if I removed the handrail for this shot... honestly, officer, I was going to put it back, right after I get done.
in these next two shots, I was playing with the white balance of the camera. this first shot is set on "auto". this is where the camera looks at the pictures and figure out how much it has to "shift" the color balance to make it "normal". of course, "normal" is a little subjective with these night photos.
this shot is taken with "manual" white balance set to 5500K. I think the grass looks nice in this.
this is another long exposure shot. to give you and idea of how dark these areas are, you sort of make out the park bench, but not that there were people sitting in it.
finally, we had a nice "clear sky" day the other day and I stopped along the highway to take some sunset photos with these cool clouds. these shots were all taken free hand without tripod.
tonight, we are going to get together and critique our work with the people in the class and the instructor. I'm looking forward to seeing the results of my classmates. everyone shot with film camera and had the film processed and printed at a one hour lab. I took my digital images on a flash disk to a couple of one hour places and had them printed. actually. one machine decided to "enhance" my photos and color balance as well as adjust the exposure on them, nullifying all of the manual settings. all of the bracketted shots ended up looking the same, also I didn't like how the grass/leave green was enhanced. too bad there isn't a way to turn that off. it will be interesting how the processing machine delt with the film images. this class is a really fun/neat experience.
this is an image of the dark area exposed for as long as possible wide open and with the film sensitivy setting set to 320 ASA. if I wanted to longer exposures I would have to use the "bulb" setting, but I don't have a remote shutter release for my camera. I like how the sky and water is lit up almost as if it was daytime, but yet there is the glow from the street lamps that illuminates the grass and trees/bushes.
I thought this was a cool shot/angle, although the handrail detracts a little from the image. they probably would not have been all too happy, if I removed the handrail for this shot... honestly, officer, I was going to put it back, right after I get done.
in these next two shots, I was playing with the white balance of the camera. this first shot is set on "auto". this is where the camera looks at the pictures and figure out how much it has to "shift" the color balance to make it "normal". of course, "normal" is a little subjective with these night photos.
this shot is taken with "manual" white balance set to 5500K. I think the grass looks nice in this.
this is another long exposure shot. to give you and idea of how dark these areas are, you sort of make out the park bench, but not that there were people sitting in it.
finally, we had a nice "clear sky" day the other day and I stopped along the highway to take some sunset photos with these cool clouds. these shots were all taken free hand without tripod.tonight, we are going to get together and critique our work with the people in the class and the instructor. I'm looking forward to seeing the results of my classmates. everyone shot with film camera and had the film processed and printed at a one hour lab. I took my digital images on a flash disk to a couple of one hour places and had them printed. actually. one machine decided to "enhance" my photos and color balance as well as adjust the exposure on them, nullifying all of the manual settings. all of the bracketted shots ended up looking the same, also I didn't like how the grass/leave green was enhanced. too bad there isn't a way to turn that off. it will be interesting how the processing machine delt with the film images. this class is a really fun/neat experience.
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