yOOrek's Rants'n Raves » Night Photography http://blog.yoorek.com The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:40:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Late evening in Switzerland http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/04/06/late-evening-in-switzerland/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/04/06/late-evening-in-switzerland/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:22:32 +0000 yOOrek http://yoorek.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/late-evening-in-switzerland/ I tried a long time, evening exposure for a first time. I metered off the sky as recommended by Understanding Exposure book by Bryan Peterson. I am happy with the way car light trails came out, although they are quite far away. Next time I’ll have to get closer to where the action is. Metering off the sky was the right choice. Seems to have worked. Of course the camera was mounted on a tripod. A really old (@20 years) Manfrotto 055. I tried to take the same photo at 300mm but it came out a little blurred. Don’t know if it was my fault though or tripod’s or both.

Late evening in Switzerland

Late evening in Switzerland Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Manual exposure, Matrix metering metered off the sky as per ‘Understanding Exposure’ book. Tripod.
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“Sitting down the beach front at night, long exposure of a tree about to be battered by the storm. “

Check it out for yourself – Windblown by ~Nevermoron on deviantART.
Since I switched my blog to WordPress I noticed that I cannot include photos from DeviantArt. They seem to be using flash to display the photos. And WordPress does not allow flash objects in posts. What a shame.
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