He shoots RAW so he adjusts everything in Adobe Camera RAW/PS, unless he's using Lightroom and I don't know about it. But I don't think he shoots JPG anymore. (Me too, except when the missus wants pics to upload right away from something, so that's what RAW+JPG is for...)
Yeah...im still on the JPG side of the fence. At the moment my biggest card is 2 GB -- but guess whats on my Christmas list! I might try a shot or two in RAW (or maybe RAW + JPG) just to play with in a couple of weeks. I am taking my computer so I can dump my memory card each night if I have to.
Okay...all you Dream Light wizards, I'll be at MK in two weeks and want to get a nice photo of the Dream Lights for my 2009 Christmas card (how's that for planning?). So, what's exposures do you use? I'll be using a tripod with a shutter remote.
Scott, this was shot at 2.5 seconds, f/11, ISO200, +2/3 EV. Although I'm happy with the picture, I found later in the trip that night shots were more to my liking when the ISO was raised between 400 and 800. If you have the capability to deal with the extra noise (on the D300 it's basically a non issue) post processing it's worth it IMO. Same for fireworks. My Illuminations pictures shot at ISO400 turned out much better than Wishes shot at ISO200. I wish I knew why but I don't...?
Probably shorter Roger... I was shooting in A priority set at f/11. Don't ask why f/11 :-[ but it seemed like a good idea at the time. So certainly the camera would have compensated for the higher ISO by shortening the exposure time, right? I don't know for sure, but I will say that during the fireworks I was using the bulb shutter mode so the exposure times were all over the place. Anywhere from 5 seconds to 25 seconds or so. In general the higher ISO ones seemed brighter all around.
Beautiful shot, Joe! Thank you for your tips and suggestions. I know Craig in another thread talked about using apertures like f/22 and f/32 to increase the shutter speed for firework shots. If I have time, I'll try to do a series of exposures and see which ones come out. I use an older Nikon D70 while I don't mind going to ISO 1600, the lower the better since I know I'm going for a printed finished product.
great work scott, as you can see i went for the classic, this is the rough workup of what may become my large wall hanger, i feel very strongly about including the partners statue in the shot, and thus a good lesson in don't get bogged down in the obvious, i got so concentrated in getting the shot i wanted that i did not think outside the box,so it never crossed my mind to go for the reflection shot, and it's from a spot i've probably walked by a hundred times, and did at least twice that night with my tripod in hand [attachment=1] [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
Nice work everyone! I am really enjoying the different perspectives that you are all posting. It is nice to see them.
