Vulcan58
12th of November 2008 (Wed), 11:29
Mods feel free to move this to an appropriate forum.
Not normally being a "night owl" with the camera as such, but last night saw the Queen Elizabeth 2 depart the UK forever & wanted (like so many others here) to see her off.
Now, this grand lady sailed past our area about 915(ish) so it was very dark.
She was about 3 miles out to sea & not exactly lit up like a xmas tree(even though it was a farewell cruise).
Bear in mind she was travelling probably 11 knots minimum, and although I could get all of her in the viewfinder using 500mm on tripod & ISO cranked up as far as it would go, I tried all manner of exposure / aperture combinations to try get a decent pic of her but due to the ship moving it was inevitable to get light trails & blurry images.
A proposition then - How would YOU have gone about undertaking the same situation?
Just wondering really as I hadn't thought about it before & therefore wasn't disappointed when I got home to view the images.
Not normally being a "night owl" with the camera as such, but last night saw the Queen Elizabeth 2 depart the UK forever & wanted (like so many others here) to see her off.
Now, this grand lady sailed past our area about 915(ish) so it was very dark.
She was about 3 miles out to sea & not exactly lit up like a xmas tree(even though it was a farewell cruise).
Bear in mind she was travelling probably 11 knots minimum, and although I could get all of her in the viewfinder using 500mm on tripod & ISO cranked up as far as it would go, I tried all manner of exposure / aperture combinations to try get a decent pic of her but due to the ship moving it was inevitable to get light trails & blurry images.
A proposition then - How would YOU have gone about undertaking the same situation?
Just wondering really as I hadn't thought about it before & therefore wasn't disappointed when I got home to view the images.