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5D MK III, EF 24-70 f2.8L II

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5D MK III, EF 24-70 f2.8L II

Ross

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Night Photography

Image: 5D Mk III, 24-105 f4 L IS

Taking photos at night is mostly about getting focus, here I was setup on a tripod and set my focus on one of the windows, there was enough contrast for the auto focus to pick it up, I set my aperture to f7.1 to get a bit faster shutter speed.

 Image: 5D Mk III, 24-105 f4 L IS

 Again I got enough light on the window for auto focus to work and tried to maintain about 20 sec exposure to keep the stars pinpoint instead of streaks.

so some basic rules are keep the exposure as fast as you can at ISO 100, use a tripod, find contrast for your auto focus to work or switch to manual focus, if there are no stars or you want to impart movement somehow go with a longer exposure, if its very dark you may need to bump up your ISO to 1600 to get a faster shutter speed.

Its amazing what can be done with today's cameras, tomorrows, well ?.................

Ross

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Barns And Wheat Fields

Image: Canon S95

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Image: 5D Mk II, 8-15 f 4 L, 15mm at f11 for 1/15 sec

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Image: 5D Mk II, 24-70 f 2.8 L, 24mm at f5 for 30 sec

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Image: 5D Mk II, 24-70 f 2.8 L, 27mm at f8 for 30 sec

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This was a fun shoot and one I've been wanting to try, some old barns, abandoned years ago and falling apart, out in the middle of a wheat field. My original thought was to shoot the barns and the wheat fields, but it turned in to a night shoot when not much came out of the evening light. The wide shot was done with Canons new 8-15 f4 L Fish eye lens, (borrowed) a fun lens, but maybe a bit narrow use.

The big dipper shows up in the darker image, view larger to see it. The B and W image was done by highlighting the barn with a flashlight during the exposure (painting with light), both where hard to obtain focus, but the results are quite interesting.

Ross

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