1st proper night shot

Having just got my camera back from repair after 3 months I went out to try some looong exposures. This was a 4 minute exposure taken at Brora beach at 8 O'clock. I know the composition isn't brilliant, but I love the sky. Bear with me, this isn't the last time I try this type of shot. Next time, I'll get there before its so dark and plan my composition! C&C welcome

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Hi Trevor.
Glad you've finally got the camera back and you're putting it to good use I see.
Fantastic sky and the 4 minute exposure has created a great effect.
Love it.

BTW what did you do for the 4 minutes.

That's a very cool shot!

lomond wrote in post #2076729
Hi Trevor.
Glad you've finally got the camera back and you're putting it to good use I see.
Fantastic sky and the 4 minute exposure has created a great effect.
Love it.

BTW what did you do for the 4 minutes.

Bear in mind it takes 8 minutes with noise reduction switched on. Nicki was with me so I was occupied for 2 minutes anyway

Thanks for the comments, Cameron.

Thanks fi20100 for the kind words

Lovely! The long exposure really created an interesting shot.

It could almost be a loch as the long exposure has smoothed out the waves of the sea - whilst not the best of composition the effect of the sky, as Cameron says is great.
Hope all went well with the other tests on the camera and that it's now working fine.

Lovely shot

Nice Trevor. I like the effect on the sky of your long exposure, and am glad you managed to at least pass a quarter of the time while waiting.

weemannie wrote in post #2076709
Having just got my camera back from repair after 3 months I went out to try some looong exposures. This was a 4 minute exposure taken at Brora beach at 8 O'clock. I know the composition isn't brilliant, but I love the sky. Bear with me, this isn't the last time I try this type of shot. Next time, I'll get there before its so dark and plan my composition! C&C welcome

Now,thats something i`ll be looking fw to see.

Great cloud effect Trevor,nice to see you back.

Great shot, love the effect. How does one do a 4 minute exposure? ISO 100, Smallest aperture, ND filter, use a remote shutter, any tips?

I like the effect, nice work.

Shaun

Dorman wrote in post #2078059
Great shot, love the effect. How does one do a 4 minute exposure? ISO 100, Smallest aperture, ND filter, use a remote shutter, any tips?

Thanks for the comments, Dorman. To achieve this, I waited until an hour after sunset. At that stage I could just make out some shadows, but very little else. You can either estimate the required exposure or do a test shot first. For a test shot, turn off Noise reduction. As its only a test you don't have to worry about the noise. Its just to help assess the final exposure and saves time as NR doubles the exposure time. Set your highest ISO and try a 30 sec exposure. Aperture f4 and focus on infinity. (as these shots are better done with a wide angle lens, depth of field is greater anyway). If the test is OK then turn on NR and set your ISO to 100. Set the camera to Bulb and adjust your timing to compensate for the reduced ISO. For example if your test was done at ISO 1600 you would need to adjust your exposure by 4 stops giving an 8 minute exposure. Bear in mind that the overall time will be 16 minutes with the noise reduction switched on.
Its great fun, try it!

Thank you Saralonde, catz1ct, David, John, Dimitri and Shaun for the kind comments. They are much appreciated.

Nce image Trevor, and I enjoy doing these kind of shots, perhaps I would crop a touch from the bottom.
Just to provide a further bit of clarification on NR (in case anyone thinks you have to double exposure times) ,when turned on, after any exposure of more than 1/15 sec the camera takes a second blank exposure of the same length and then "subtracts" it from the actual image to eliminate identical noise that appears in each.

Neat shots Trevor

I hats off for explaining long exposures, I was lacking in any such knowledge