kinda ehhh but still a night shot!

 

Not happy with the composition on this one, but it was quite the battle to position the car to not get porta-potties and super-ooper-duper bright lights in the photo. I tried several spots until I found one that masked most, but put the ferris wheel in the wrong spot. Thought I'd share it anyway. Photo was taken outside of Oakridge mall in south San Jose.

 

I thought this was cute a MINI for sale at a pumpkin patch.

 

Here is a shot of the pumpkin patch that was behind the MINI

 

here is one to share

 

i can never remember which photos i've posted to NAM already... hopefully this is not duplicated in a previous post. [i]

 

neighbors halloween display

 

 

Whoah! Love the chaos of those jet trails.

-Juan

 

+1 Living not all that far from O'hare thats given me a few ideas to try next time I'm out.

 

I like how it came out too. The shoot gave me some ideas for the future as well. I might even have a chance to put that into practice in time for the calendar contest.

 

great shot! care to share any details with us amateurs? how long did you keep the shutter open, etc?

 

It was a 4 minute exposure at F/5.6

 

Nice work the longest exposure I can get is only 4 sec.

 

Went to the Dragon last weekend.. got a few good night shots on the way back home on the Blue Ridge Parkway..

 

 

First night with my new MINI.

 

Very Nice! I like the green street light reflection.

 

This is why you keep your CCD CLEAN!!!!




More in my composition thread.

 

4min!!!

30sec is all i can find?

How on earth do i get to 4min????

 

Bulb mode.

 

To expand a bit on what blalor said....

It was shot in bulb mode. On my camera that can be accessed by shooting manual mode, then bulb mode is the option just past 30 sec.

In bulb mode the shutter stays open as long as the shutter release is held down. That can be accomplished a couple ways.

The one way is to get a remote shutter release that you can open and close the shutter with. With Nikon the price varies anywhere from $17 for the D70 remote release to over $100 for the remote release for the D200.

The other way is to get yourself a penny or any other small coin, and a rubber band. Place the camera in Bulb mode, with the self timer set to 10 seconds or so, strap the penny onto the shutter release with the shutter release held down about half way. Then when you want to shoot the picture, press on the coin to fully depress the shutter release, the self timer will start, the shutter will open, and then the coin will hold down the shutter release button for as long as you like. When you're ready to close the shutter, throw a t-shirt or some other cloth over the front of the lens and THEN remove the penny/rubber band. You're using the cloth to prevent light from entering the lens while you're handling the camera to remove the penny. Make sense?

I have shot both ways, and I'm coming to prefer the penny method.

 

amazing shots Motor On... i'm sorry what is CCD?

 

A cCCD is the short way of saying image sensor, all the little black dots are dust specs:impatient

Thanks for the compliment, I linked to a few more and think I forgot to post this one last night, taking a cue from Minvader's work.

 

I get some of the coolest shots at night...