Venue
Linlithgow Palace and Loch
Time
Night
Equipment
Sony Alpha 200; Tripod; Torch (to see what I was doing)
Comments
As it was a crisp night I decided to take the short walk to the Loch to try and get some long exposures of the Palace lit up at night. It was extremely cold but the Palace looked really good all lit up so I set up my tripod and took a few test shots. I was using a shutter speed of a second but the shot was too dark. With my battery life disappearing quickly I extended the shutter speed to 10 secs and then 30secs. With these longer exposure times the pictures became clearer and showed the Palace to its full glory.
This exercise highlighted how much longer you have to have the exposure when shooting at night to ensure that you get an even, full exposure. Also how long shutter speeds are very draining on the camera battery.
To see the photos of this session please click HERE.
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Hi
ReplyDeleteGreat shots and meet the criteria as you have labelled. However try to keep you ISO under control by using various ISO's on a shoot to see what effects you get and what quality drop you get from one to another. Dont let the camera do it for you remember everything on manual settings.
steve