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Neat shot. I’d challenge you to get this under 30 seconds with some external lighting, ISO boost, or FSTOP changes, should easily be possible with the amount of street lighting nearby, external lighting would make it easy.
But if you want the star/streak effect, then prolonging the situation is definitely on the order
Higher ISO would make for noisy shots would it not? From what I gather, the consensus is low ISO for night shots otherwise you run into noise.
Yes, but 100-200 should be OK on most cameras. Fstop makes a big difference too. My point is in this lighting 150 seconds is a very long time, there seems to be ample street lighting to work with. Plus external lighting would cut it down even more. Just my thoughts, i’m no night shot expert (I only shoot at night about two to three times a year) but i’m rarely in a situation where more than 30 seconds is necessary.
It’s very dark there. Trust me. The streetlights do very little to illuminate beyond the street itself. They are LED and very targeted in where they disperse light. I’ve done enough of these lately to have a good gage on that. Compare to that GMD-1 shot which was 17 seconds. Now that’s good street lighting. Would’ve been the same ISO and aperture as this shot. It is not bright here whatsoever.
Makes sense. Use your car’s high beams. Hope they are tall enough to cover it all. Or start bringing some external lighting, a good flash light and you can paint ‘er. It’ll take me years to get good at all of this but I do experiment, but not often enough
No where near as reliable, but, full moons are great for lighting up things. A good clear night has produced night photos for me that look very much like daytime. You get about 4 or 5 days a lunar cycle to take advantage of it. Winter is the best as the moon is very high in the sky. If it’s cloudy though, got to wait until the next full moon, which is a bummer.
Well Larry, the moon was an advantageous size, location and brightness on this night and even then it was very dark there.
The shot at OSR Salford shops I did a while was a six minute exposure even with the help of a full moon. When the move was covered there even six minutes was dark as dark can be.
I still don’t have a remote timer (i’m limited to 30 seconds as a result). I should just get one… but usually for night shots… i’d rather be in bed.. especially in summer.
Winter on the other hand.. it’s just the damn weather that keeps me from trying at night.
Sorry Jamie, I did not mean to sound bossy in my last comment. What works in one situation does not necessarily mean it will work in another.
After seeing Mr. Bishops recent night photo, it made me aware of the lights being out on the 4095, even the little lights that shine down on the trucks. Is this one of the units that starts back up automatically when the engine block becomes to cold? (No evidence of exhaust either above the stacks, which should show up in an exposure this long). As mentioned/shown in your 2073 photo, those units have green lights lit to indicate this feature is in operation.
Painted black and in this light, the snowplow looks like one of those stealth jets.
Didn’t take it that way at all Larry! I was just saying even with a somewhat helpful moon it’s still a pretty dark location compared to many others I’ve done night shots.
It was below 0 this night and the unit was not idling. It does have one of the APUs like the units in the Stratford shot I believe.