Dancing Lights
"Dancing Lights"
"Power Up"
"The Jolly Rodger"
"Candy Skies"
"Off To Neverland"
| Category | #monomad Wednesday #abstract @brumest |
| Camera | Sony A7 |
| Lens | 14mm Rokinon FE |
| Location | Spokane, WA |
| Date | July 16, 2015 |
I told my little brother I wanted a dark spot in the city to shoot the stars and so we climbed to the top of this hill. Got some great shots, but it's actually pretty darn terrifying hiking in the dark. I was moving my flashlight to every sound. Haha. We finally high tailed it out when we heard a mountain lion in the distance. That moment was actually caught in the last photo. Notice the boy in the tree moved...
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Lovely. I've tried long exposure like this...turns out like garbage. Really nice work.
Thank you! You just gotta go out and experiment. Are you talking about the stars or the light painting? for stars just Take a bunch in raw at different exposure times and ISO's and then look at them in Lightroom. You may think it's garbage, but once you bring up the whites and clarity that will pop your stars and then take down the highlights so it's not too much and pull down the darks in the tone curve to get the black in the sky back and not so milky. You'd be surprised how many stars are actually in your photo. Also download a star tracker app to find the milky way and obviously a dark spot. Aaaaand do a scout of the area in the day for interesting foreground you may want to feature. Once it's dark it's not as easy to roam around for a good shot. haha.
this ist one of the clearest explanations to make good pictures of the milky way!
thank you!
Those last two star shots are amazing! I agree with @jfolkmann, I too have tried many times and it just always looks terrible.
Could you share any more info on aperture, ISO, exposure time etc?
The images vary, anywhere between 1600 ISO and 2500 ISO and between 10 and 15 sec exposures. Plus shooting raw and editing in Lightroom. I can't remember exactly where I got my set of night presents, but if you look online there should be some free downloads from lightroom or check out some youtube tutorials. You'll want to bump up the clarity, the shadows, and the whites, and take down the highlights and then play with the tone curve. Drag down the darks to make the sky less milky since you've brought up the whites. Hope that helps a little. Oh and I believe I shot it at an F2.8? That Rokinon lens has a manual aperture so I don't have the digital info.
Thanks for following up, I’m very keen to give it another go. My biggest problem was no matter how high I bumped the ISO up the image was still grainy. And I could never get many stars to pop against the dark sky unlike your one that is covered in stars.
Nice, what Lamps were used in these shots?
Lamps? I had a few flashlights I brought to light up the rocks. The dimmer and more wide spread the better. Since the exposures are 10-15 seconds there's no need for bright spotty lights. And really I only held the light on the rocks for a couple seconds. And the light painting was an led strip in a plastic tube.
Thank you, yes maybe lamps wasn´t the right term, i liked the lighting the of the led-strip.
Great images! I love the lightpainting and the colors.
Thanks!
Love it! Have you by chance gotten a chance to use the Pixelstick?
No I haven't, but thanks for the heads up! That looks amaaaaazzzing! Want!!!! I do have a YONGNUO YN360 now that I use as a nice easy to travel with fill light. Could probably do some painting with that, but this Pixelstick does rainbowssss!
It does a ton. If you do long exposures - it's a fun tool to invest in.
Love the power up one!
Amazing set! :O