Night Expeditions
Two night expeditions last week and I’m just getting around to posting the products. Tuesday, Bill and I made a midnight run through the rural areas just south of town. I think I’m getting a little better at exploiting ambient lighting in these night shots… no lighting the shot with the car’s headlight this time around. Away from town and out in the open, the wind became a problem as can be seen in the motion blurred trees in the shot above.
Friday night’s run was with Jason and his wife Jen. The night was perfectly clear, no wind and a full moon producing an iridescent blue sky. The plan was to head out and retake the photo above. However the photos I shot of the same spot that night, just don’t have the same feeling. Sometimes it’s a one time thing you just can’t repeat… which makes the original shot even stronger for me. But I picked up this shot that reminded us of those anime cartoons where the artwork is super realistic.
Next up is a photo created using photoshop’s HDR (High Dynamic Range) feature. What you do is setup a shot on tripod and then take the shot at different shutter speeds to get a range of exposures of basically the same shot. The Photoshop HDR feature then allows you to take the best exposed parts from the range of shots and combine them into one photo. This lets you keep detail in areas that would be under or over exposed in a single exposure photo. The photo here of a Covered Bridge is actually the product of 16 photos of the same shot, at different shutter speeds from 10 seconds to 1/15 of a second. Again, I love the model scenery feel going on in some of these night photos.
Anyway, enough talk. Time to let the photos do the rest of the work…
Lake Sangchris and Peabody Coal Mine (Tuesday & Friday Nights)
Lindsey Bridge (Friday Night)
Stockyard Road (Friday Night)
October 12th, 2006 at 11:17 am
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