Thursday, January 24, 2008

Night Shots


I went out with my Canon 20D, lenses and tripod and did some night, long-exposure, shots in Willimantic, CT. I hoped for good shooting around Frog Bridge.It was quite cold and many of my shots were out of focus. Some from shake (even on tripod) others from the auto-focus lens(es) not being able to focus well in darkness. It was much darker to the eye than appears in this photo.

I had exposures from fractions to 8 seconds or more. I was surprised to see the introduction of noise even though I shot with ISO 100 speed and my camera was set for "Long-exposure noise reduction" (a custom function).

The above shot is a favorite. Oh, it happened to be a full moon too! The color reproduction is as shot.

2 comments:

Nathan said...

that's a cool shot. it'd be cool to lighten the frog a little, make it more of a focal point maybe? or the houses and lighting might be focus enough...

i like it.

Steve said...

Actually, the frog is lightend already...too much more and it will appear unnatural. I want it to be the focal point, obviously. The watchman (frog), guardian.