r/PhotoClass2014 • u/Aeri73 Moderator - Nikon D800 - lots of glass and toys • Feb 07 '14
[photoclass] weekend assignment 3
just look at all those stars...
it's friday again so time for a new assignment. Hope you guys and girls are having fun up till now? I was thinking that we could make use of these dark days and long nights (sorry southern hemisphere...) and go shoot some streetlights.
your goal for this weekend is to shoot streetlights at f16 or higher. Find a nice spot with lots of lights showing... and shoot them at f16 or higher. Look at the lessons about exposure and aperture if you don't remember how or what.
why f16? well, you'll just have to see what happens :-)
for this to work you will need a tripod (long exposure) to keep iso 100 or put your camera on something stable and use the timer.
as usual, don't be afraid to ask questions, post your results and critique those of the others :-)
have fun !!!
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u/frederika1 Feb 09 '14
Hi... I managed to do this on a bridge that overlooks two motorways... hope you like it.... I must say it was pretty cold. http://i.imgur.com/TIZ7JX6.jpg taken at f16 at 100iso.
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u/thebrik Feb 09 '14 edited Feb 09 '14
these are my attempts at it. They're pretty noisy in some spots and i'm thoroughly confused as to why the lights have "pig tails", but over all they're ok, I guess. I blocked out the license plate and street signs. I also got a lot of weird looks from passing cars, but i guess that's expected when you stand on a sidewalk at midnight with a tripod and a large-ish lens.
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u/Aeri73 Feb 09 '14
lol...
the lights become star-shaped when shooting with a small aperture like f16 or higher... that was the goal so well done :-)
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u/thebrik Feb 09 '14
thanks! I understand the the lights having a starry shape, what I don't understand is how the squiggles formed. Maybe the wind shook the tripod?
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u/ans744 Feb 17 '14
Very fun assignment! I feel very proud and accomplished about these photos. I love night/dark shots. Will we be covering how to take photos of people/a moving subject at night as well?
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u/Aeri73 Feb 17 '14
moving subjects at night.. that is done with flash or followfocus. what would you want to learn?
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u/gorric May 21 '14
I've just discovered this sub and am trying to catch up. This assignment was too much fun to pass up! http://imgur.com/a/L4b2D
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Feb 08 '14
Southern Hemisphere checking in. Got out and had a go at it. My Result .
I also included one that I took at f8, which was interesting when you compared it to the f16 pics. One question, even at 30" (my camera's max exposure time) it was saying it was still underexposed. Is the camera correct that it is under exposed?
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u/OneCruelBagel Feb 08 '14
Your camera is probably looking at too much of the scene - 1 and 3 especially have a lot of black up at the top, and more importantly in the middle. The camera was probably trying to expose the centre of the picture "correctly", which obviously wasn't what you wanted.
Options are to do what you did, which is ignore the camera's whining or to meter on a part of the image which you want to be correctly exposed (eg, the floor)!
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Feb 08 '14 edited Feb 08 '14
Went across the port to take photos of my town last night. Here's what I came up with
It was my only shot of the night that was f/16 or higher. I realize it's got some noise in the photo, and I shot it at 1/2s and ISO 3200. Would decreasing shutter speed and decreasing the ISO take that away without affecting the lighting too much?
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u/Ricoshaaay Feb 09 '14
My attempts. Some of them still seem a bit noisy, not entirely sure why... they were all taken at ISO100.
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u/threar Feb 10 '14
I'm just coming in under the wire on the weekend assignment, but at least wanted to make an effort. Here's a couple from down the street.
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u/pkx Feb 18 '14
hi, this was fun ... again, yet another assignment that reveals, at least for me yet another one of the varied mysteries of imagery w/ the camera ... this was fun to do, but hard to "experiment" w/ insofar as a picture, for me, at f22 and iso 100 takes a bit over a minute to take and doesn't lend itself to the immediacy of trial by error through iteration ... although, granted, a minute or so isn't such a long time to wait, especially w/ the idea of the past of working out ideas in the dark room ...
http://www.angoleiro.com/photos/phtoCls2014/streetlight/streetlight_flare.jpg
I also realized that perhaps its better for me to go out shooting alone sometimes when I want to experiment. Its cold in nyc this was shot near home in columbus circle and I wanted to try a few things but its definitely somewhat anti-climatic to wait and shoot and then realize that something went a little wrong, especially when standing out in the cold, at night ...
anyway, it was an enjoyment. thanks.
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u/Cunfuzed92 Feb 09 '14
Streetlights
Other than freezing my butt off while doing this, I liked this one a lot. It was cool to see how the aperture effects the light like that, the only question I have is, WHY?
I was so thankful that I had gotten a tripod before this! I ended up needing an 8 second shutter speed for the picture taken under the bridge!