Show Me Your Night Shots!

[brightmatter]

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[brightmatter]

Bumpity Bump

[Martin Aislabie]

Some from London a fortnight ago with the Busch Pressman on Portra 100T:

Love these

There are so many possibilities with the bridges and the Thames.

Martin

[thesilverfox]

I have a beginner question.?

For night landscapes, do you take a reading using a lumisphere for incident light where your camera is standing or do you point it towards the subject?

[brightmatter]

I use a slightly unorthodox method: spray and pray!

Just kidding but I usually play it by ear, using my digital camera as a light meter. With long exposures and high exposure latitude film like Portra there's not too much that can go wrong!

[riooso]

Just kinda look through the night shots and do some research on the web to see what times and apture they were using. City environs you might be able to meter. Country shots, in the middle of nowhere, will be different but on the web you can look at some of the stuff people are doing and dial it in pretty quickly. After dark I start about 30 seconds. One stop above that is 60 seconds, right? So getting right on is not usually a problem. Just set up a special part of your notebook, that you log all your shots in, for night stuff. It will not take long to pretty much dial it in.

Take Care,
Richard

[Tim Meisburger]

Try the Jiffy calculator for night exposures. Seems dodgy but works a charm. Google it.

[thesilverfox]

Great, thanks guys.
Made myself a Jiffy calculator and will try a star trail tonight with some across 100 @ f9.5 for 4 hours and see what happens.

[Tim Meisburger]

Good luck!. And let us see the result. I've never tried star trails myself, as I live in places without clear skies, but I meet thinking about shooting the moon. Unfortunately, I don't have any really long lenses, and when I look at what I get on the ground glass with a 210, it aint very big.

[riooso]

If I may suggest a site. This gentleman is on top of night photography and this site has tons of information about night photography. I know that he is using digital but his articles on star scanning are very good. There is nothing that he does that can not largely be done with 4x5.

http://clarkvision.com/index.html

Richard