Woo-hoo! Great picture taking day today. In the afternoon, a few not so good pictures taken while snowboarding at Stowe. On the drive home, I stopped and took some pictures in actual sunlight! The top of the mountain was clouded over, so the pictures taken on the mountain were not so great. But, down in town, sunlight!


iso100, f/2.0, 1/4000 second - circular polarized used

Then, in the evening, I headed back to the spot in Stowe where I took the pictures in the sun, but now it was 8:00 (and 10 degrees F)

I took a couple of pictures of the snow and a fence, aimed a little below the moon:

iso100, f/5.6, 351 seconds


iso100, f/5.0, 520 seconds

Then, I took a couple of pictures that included the ski area:

iso100, f/5.6, 202 seconds


iso100, f/5.0, 1007 seconds (that's 16 minutes, 47 seconds)

The rightmost bright spot is from the lit trail for night-skiing. The "glow" is from snowmaking. The lights in the center of the last photo are from the grooming equipment.

The streaks in the sky in the night photos are stars.

All photos taken with the Canon Digital Rebel, Canon 35mm f/2 lens. Taken in RAW mode, Photoshop Elements 3.0 used to convert to jpg, using the "auto" conversions.

Links to some full size ~3MB jpgs

http://homepage.mac.com/jtross/images/StoweNight1.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/jtross/images/StoweNight2.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/jtross/images/StoweNight3.jpg

These show that I have some "hot pixel" issues I might need to figure out a good way to fix. When you resize the images down to a web-accesible size, they random colored pixels go away. But, full-size, they're there.

 

Nice pictures.

I really like the night exposures. :smile:

Hot pixels are relatively common on multiple minute exposures. If you wind up wanting to print the full size picture, you could paint/patch/clone/healing brush those local areas.

EDIT: After looking at the full size pictures, that does seem like a lot of hot pixels.

-> Do you have a Long Exposure Noise Reduction setting on the Rebel?

 

Don't know, and forgot to check the manual yesterday. What surprises me is that I read somewhere online that hot pixels really are heat related, and the warmer it is, the worse they get. Since those pictures were taken when it was 10F outside, I wonder what will happen in the summer when it's in the 90s.