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Biba

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Hey, first pic! Canon EOS 1000D 1.8 50mm
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moonball_sl said:
600 rule, divide 600 by your focal length and that is the max exposure so stars don't trail. So for these exposures at 14mm I could have gone about 42 sec but in manual mode my max exposure is 30" and I'm too lazy to get out my cable release. Also, the rule is "not" perfect I can zoom in on my images and see quite a bit of trailing.

Also set your aperture to wide open, this was a 14-24mm f/2.8 lens and its pretty sharp at 2.8 so I didn't stop down any. Some lenses you might stop down to say 3.5 or 4 to get the sharpest image it also reduces some coma from the cheaper lenses.

Then crank up the ISO, these images were at ISO 3200 on a full frame sensor (D800E) so there is little noise, on a crop sensor try 1600 or 2000 and you should get some great images.
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Im off on a desert camping trip this weekend and hoping for some clear weather. I have a full frame (5D mkIII) and my widest glass is a 16-35mm f/2.8 zoom. By that 600 rule, I should be able to expose up to ~37s. Thankfully, I can crank some good ISO levels without much noise. I will let you know how it goes.
 
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Drek_sl

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moonball_sl said:
600 rule, divide 600 by your focal length and that is the max exposure so stars don't trail. So for these exposures at 14mm I could have gone about 42 sec but in manual mode my max exposure is 30" and I'm too lazy to get out my cable release. Also, the rule is "not" perfect I can zoom in on my images and see quite a bit of trailing.

Also set your aperture to wide open, this was a 14-24mm f/2.8 lens and its pretty sharp at 2.8 so I didn't stop down any. Some lenses you might stop down to say 3.5 or 4 to get the sharpest image it also reduces some coma from the cheaper lenses.

Then crank up the ISO, these images were at ISO 3200 on a full frame sensor (D800E) so there is little noise, on a crop sensor try 1600 or 2000 and you should get some great images.
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Wicked shots and thanks for this, something I want to try doing but I'm not out of the city often enough.

Recent shots:

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Moonball

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Sunset on the Sandia mountains here in ABQ, New Mexico

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Last rays of light hitting the Sandia's

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BrutulTM

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Gorgeous. Especially the second one. Nice shots.
 
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Drek_sl

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moonball_sl said:
I like. That a random building with those silhouettes? I like how its sorta lonely people and then a couple kissing on the lower floor.
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Secrets out - it's actually the bottom floor of a building, the people in it are my girlfriend and I. It's 3 shots layered on top of each other.
 
eXarc

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Drek, props on your phenomenal photography man.

edit; Threw you a 'like' on Facebook. Whatever helps!
 
Hex

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Been going on vacation to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan during the past two summers decided to do a trip this year during the fall too to do a before & after comparison to summer's unending sea of green and the falls explosion of colors in the porcupine mountains. God I love this place.





 
Daelos

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moonball_sl said:
Very nice shot. HDR I take?
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As Drek suggested; it's a long exposure shot (30-40 seconds I think - will need to check the metadata).

This was shot in the Kyoto Geisha district, and what you can't see in the picture is a geisha walking down the side, a maiko (geisha-in-training, 13-14 years old girl) coming in from the side and performing a head-to-the-ground bow, and continuing on. Before I realized what was going on, I was just annoyed that people were walking into my exposure
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I have some more shots from that trip I will add soon. Here's one more:
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Daelos

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Hex_sl said:
Been going on vacation to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan during the past two summers decided to do a fall trip this year during the fall too to do a before & after comparison to summer's unending sea of green and the falls explosion of colors in the porcupine mountains. God I love this place.
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That is an awesome place! Simply majestic.

(and nice shots too!)
 
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Drek_sl

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What you did is super cool! If you guys get a lot of snow you should finish off the set and go back in winter!! Would love to see it.
 
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