nicolas claris
OPF Co-founder/Administrator
For some of us who live in the Northern Emisphere, it is autumn, while we do have some nice day colors in a "sister" thread, one may notice that night is covering our heads earlier and earlier.
So we live much more under the night colors and lights (not to mention Nordic countries!) than in Summer.
Obvious? yes of course, but it also provide more time to try night shots…
So I'll start, trying to tease you and see what YOU have already done, or what YOU could try…
Context: for my little agency, it is a very busy period of time, within a few days the Salon Nautique de Paris will open and we have literrarly tons of brochures (plus lot of other stuffs) to deliver. But before delivery we have to get them printed… I do sign at the print shop every sheet of paper before letting the web press runs for thousands of turns…
Here, I come, yesterday, while the press was running for 2 hours, I came back to the office to wait for the next print to check, I decided to give myself a break and took the 500 mm out of it's box, leaned the camera out of the window and tried some shots:
See here a 100% crop
I'm not super happy with the IQ, I guess my tripod is too light, I of course did set the mirror to lock-up and 20 seconds timer, still not enough even holding my breath!
EXIF: 5.2S - Manual exposure - Manual focus - ƒ8 - ISO 100
Comments: the foreground is the Garonne river, some vertical "banding" you may notice are trees branches (without leaves!) [EDIT] and the shadow on the left as well [/EDIT]
So we live much more under the night colors and lights (not to mention Nordic countries!) than in Summer.
Obvious? yes of course, but it also provide more time to try night shots…
So I'll start, trying to tease you and see what YOU have already done, or what YOU could try…
Context: for my little agency, it is a very busy period of time, within a few days the Salon Nautique de Paris will open and we have literrarly tons of brochures (plus lot of other stuffs) to deliver. But before delivery we have to get them printed… I do sign at the print shop every sheet of paper before letting the web press runs for thousands of turns…
Here, I come, yesterday, while the press was running for 2 hours, I came back to the office to wait for the next print to check, I decided to give myself a break and took the 500 mm out of it's box, leaned the camera out of the window and tried some shots:
See here a 100% crop
I'm not super happy with the IQ, I guess my tripod is too light, I of course did set the mirror to lock-up and 20 seconds timer, still not enough even holding my breath!
EXIF: 5.2S - Manual exposure - Manual focus - ƒ8 - ISO 100
Comments: the foreground is the Garonne river, some vertical "banding" you may notice are trees branches (without leaves!) [EDIT] and the shadow on the left as well [/EDIT]
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