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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, presss 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.
I have shot both ways, and I'm coming to prefer the penny method.
Thanks for giving the additional details about the shot.
Did you take this shot just after sunset or how long after the sun fell from the horizon?
How's the sensor noise from shooting in bulb mode? Did Noise Ninja clean it up nicely?
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No Noise Ninja or any other noise reduction software was applied to the image. That is the image I had off the camera, levels, resize, and copyright applied. 
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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, presss 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.
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, presss 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.
just checked and it all falls in place now i know where to look
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Here are some of mine I have more but they are on my home pc, and I had some from my road trip from WA to LA but my HP laptop (H.as P.robloms) harddrive craped out after 6 months and I lost all my wedding pictures and my road trip picts. That little cooper went from 100+ degree weather to below frezzing in the snow, from sea level to 12,000ft (or so) all in 3.5days.
I have many of those, but they just don't have the same photographic quality with the aigbag, brake pad and open bonnet lights are too bright
But I do have a day shot
