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How to photograph portraits at night (under the northern lights)

 
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Nov 29, 2013 16:20 |  #1
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A friend of mine asked me to come clean about how I do these all in camera without composting, so I did.
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Nov 29, 2013 19:46 |  #2

Picture worth 1000 words?
I can imagine a quick manual flash trigger and then the model gets out of the shot?




  
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Nov 29, 2013 20:51 |  #3
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Ah bugger, forgot to post the link...i thought i had attached it in the image.


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Nov 29, 2013 22:20 |  #4

Not critiquing really here, but isn't this really grainy for such a shot?


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xarik wrote in post #16489489 (external link)
Not critiquing really here, but isn't this really grainy for such a shot?

3200 ISO indeed, you're correct it IS quite grainy.

But then again, it is in the middle of nowhere..in pitch black dark sooooooo...yeah. oh well.


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Nov 30, 2013 13:16 |  #6

Ok, looks good! Did you take another with the northern lights and the stars in focus?


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xarik wrote in post #16490666 (external link)
Ok, looks good! Did you take another with the northern lights and the stars in focus?

no, mostly because that'd probably ruin the point of doing it without compositing lol


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Nov 30, 2013 16:58 |  #8

Great tutorial!


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Dec 01, 2013 18:14 |  #9

Yeh I just wanted to see another photo without the person because it would look cool! :P Love the work man


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xarik wrote in post #16493622 (external link)
Yeh I just wanted to see another photo without the person because it would look cool! :P Love the work man

Oh ok, I get it.

I shot this image on the same night, same river and location:

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But that may be kind of hard to see ..stars are definitely in focus. Is a huge print, I will see if i can find it somewhere else for you (i don't have my Hard drive on me right now..am traveling for 3 weeks)

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Sadly this as big as I can get for resolution right now..:D but yes it is quite a big print! in that above picture it was printed 4 feet high by 16 feet wide, i believe.


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Dec 01, 2013 23:15 |  #12

:o! That's ridiculously cool man! First that you even got it, second that you got it displayed!


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Dec 04, 2013 13:23 |  #13

Lovely! Very nice work!


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