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Post by Romy Ocon on Nov 7, 2009 6:34:22 GMT
TAAL VOLCANO. A cool mist hangs over Taal Lake up to the distant Batangas mountains in the horizon, as I took a photo of Taal Volcano from atop Tagaytay ridge this morning.  40D + 100-400 IS, 100 mm, f/7.1, ISO 200, manual exposure, hand held 
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Post by Sylvia Ramos on Nov 7, 2009 8:27:40 GMT
Nice!! Looks so peaceful.. not a Starbucks or restaurant in sight!
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Post by Romy Ocon on Nov 8, 2009 0:46:07 GMT
Thanks, Sylvia! I also experimented with long exposures. This is perhaps my longest exposure ever - 524 seconds (almost 9 minutes of open shutter to absorb the few photons at night)! The wind was blowing like crazy atop Tagaytay ridge, hence some of the shrubs are blurred. The bright line at upper right is of course a star trail. I actually set up my stopwatch, opened the shutter and kept it locked open via remote switch, left the rig and went to my cooler to open a can of beer. I came back minutes later to close the shutter, with my beer at half empty. ;D 40D + Sigma 10-20, 10 mm, f/11, ISO 100, bulb exposure for 524 sec, 455B tripod/410 geared head:  |
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Post by Sylvia Ramos on Nov 8, 2009 2:51:59 GMT
It's quite well exposed! Tonji tried to do bird photography with a long exposure before, on a Savanna Nightjar that was perched on a rooftop. Didn't work.  |
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Post by Ding Carpio on Nov 8, 2009 3:16:55 GMT
Hmmm...you're giving me ideas on what to do on an idle night here in Antipolo, master.
Will probably setup the tripod on my deck, open a bottle of red, and hope I don't fall asleep waiting for half-circle star trails.
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Post by Romy Ocon on Nov 8, 2009 6:24:50 GMT
It's quite well exposed! Tonji tried to do bird photography with a long exposure before, on a Savanna Nightjar that was perched on a rooftop. Didn't work. Lol.... tough to do it at birds. Even if these are still, the wind can move the feathers. The longest exposure I was able to pull off at birds was 0.8 sec with a focal length of 800 mm. ;D  |
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Post by Romy Ocon on Nov 8, 2009 6:28:47 GMT
Hmmm...you're giving me ideas on what to do on an idle night here in Antipolo, master. Will probably setup the tripod on my deck, open a bottle of red, and hope I don't fall asleep waiting for half-circle star trails. Ding, your place is the ideal city nightscape studio. Just remember to switch off all your porch and garden lights when doing very long exposures, as such can ruin the shot. Long exposures are like film photography. You never know what you'll get till after the shot. The LCD can't pre-simulate the photo. You'll have to take a test shot first, review the histogram and adjust from there. |
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