How an ordinary night shoot became a fun light trail shoot. (With an old lens.)
The Road to Darkness
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Sigma ART 50 mm ƒ/1.4
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200
Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35mm
The first shots in my night photography set were taken with the Sigma ART 50 ƒ/1.4, but I soon decided it cramps everything up too much. I attached the Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm, one of my oldest two lenses on the nose of the camera, set it up at ƒ/16 and started shooting. (The setting was spot on so I didn't have to change anything the for rest of the shoot.)
Then this happened:
Suddenly, light trails appeared.
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200
The next one is a shot most of the people following my OPED project have seen me publish last night.
Passing cars passing cars.
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200
Some of you were asking how the light trails are done, and if I used lasers to create them. Well the truth is it's much simpler. I set the cameras exposure to 30 seconds, which means everything that happens during that 30 second time frame will get recorded "on the film" (that is, by the sensor). And while there's still traffic on the street, all the tail lights of the passing cars get recorded as these nice light trails you see here.
Next up, we had a car passing to the other direction:
Front lights changing from high-beam to low-beam.
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200
You can see how the driver changes their lights from high to low-beam, a quite dramatic change.
The next photo however, has traffic going both directions:
Both front-lights and tail-lights trailing in the shot
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200
I'd say this one is the most perfect photo of the bunch. Had to save it for today though because that's how the story sometimes folds. :) It was a fun shoot, although my feet were kind of sore after all that walking. (Took me a while since I figured out what to shoot so I walked around aimlessly for almost an hour, carrying the full gear; camera, tripod, lenses, remote triggers, even the flash. :D)
Anyway, here's the last shot I did last night:
Darkness, lit path.
Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200
While walking home I decided to shoot the path I walked on. Even that came out fine. :)
All-in-all I quite like the old Super Carenar lens at night, it delivers quite nice low-light photos.
Thank you for participating on this trip! :)
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Good photos shots. The camera is really doing wonders plus your creativity. Nice.
@gamer00,
Wow friend, specially the last photography :O Wonderful photo shot! Thanks for sharing!
Cheers~
Excellent nighttime photography and story. The road to darkness was my favorite, almost frightening......
Thank you! I liked the first one too, just because it was a bit eery shooting in the shadow, wondering if someone notices and stuff. It was the Friday night after all. ;)
Those were so beautifully taken i loved the second and third one they were simply outstanding
The 3th image is pretty cool. The high to low beam lights is captured nicely!
Around what time of the night did you get these shots?. Excellent pictures.
The timestamps on the photos say they were taken between 21:50:34 and 22:26:53. I checked the camera clock, and it was a bit off:
20:29? That's 45 minutes behind!!!
That would mean that my photos last night were actually shot between 22:35 and 23:12. I've corrected the clock now though. (Soon is Winter time so we have to adjust clocks again...)
hahaha, thats alot behind. 45 minutes less is much time. Yeah, we do the time changing here too. By 1hour +/-. Nice Canon camera .
You have excellent equipment, the pictures are wonderful.
You got a great shot. wow beautiful photography. Thank you for sharing
Interessing @gamer00 great performance thank you for sharing