Boats on the Water, but long exposure times.

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[Glenn NK]

I'm not up to speed on PS techniques, but from the film days, the recomendation for "night shots" was to shoot them at twilight, not at night. This will provide some detail on objects that aren't brightly illuminated, and will mitigate blowouts of any lights that are in the image.

Perhaps this, combined with a high ISO, would work. I've regularly used ISO 1600 for night shots (and they were in taken late at night).

EDIT: Many of us seem to be paranoid about using high ISO values for fear of NOISE. It has been demonstrated by a few posters that when exposure is correct, noise is largely mitigated if not removed. But, at "night", underexposure of some parts of the image are unavoidable.

I'm not going to suggest that you shoot when the water is calm - I live very near salt water, and calm water is quite unusual.

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[Glenn NK]

Sorry, just seen your edit. Yes, I often wonder where all the noise is on some high ISO photographs. I thought my monitor must be missing some of the detail.

Mike

What I've noticed about noise is that although it can be seen on my LCD, it doesn't seem to be visible to the same degree in prints; but then I haven't printed at 20" x 30" (500 x 760 mm).

Perhaps you could shoot the moon separately, and paste it in? Of course then you wouldn't get the "moonlight".

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[DrPablo]

The shorter the exposure, the less movement. Simple as that.

Glenn is right, you should shoot at twilight. The lighting is much better that time of day than when it's pitch black. If you have a 1.4 or 1.8 lens, ISO 400 or 800, and a 1/30 shutter speed, that may be good enough if the water is calm.

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[Glenn NK]

Okay, thanks; I'll see what I can get away with. I was after the long exposure effect on the water, but the boats in focus. Looks as if that isn't possible though. It was just an idea :-)

Mike


I think you're (we're) between a rock and a hard place here - unless the boats are really big, then they won't rock with the waves.

It's really a delicate balance between wave size and boat size. A small ripple on the water might smooth out nicely with a long exposure, but if the boats move . . . . .

I sympathize with you because I live about a seven minute walk from our Inner Harbour where even in the winter months there are enough boats from all over the west coast of North America that make great subjects, but I've always used high shutter speeds because wind rocks the darn boats.:lol:

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