The Nikon Thread

Koffee_Kosmo

A couple on Canon EOS70D night traffic photos I was a passenger and I just snapped these through the windscreen while traveling on the highway KK

GeekKopi

Hi KK. if I may, bump your ISO up a few stops. It will give you a brighter exposure and provide some more detail. When I do some night shots, especially if I want some nice bright stars im shooting at ISO3200 sometimes even at 6400 with my lens wide open. What was your ISO and aperature for those photos? I did a quick snap last night outside my garage to test noise performance of my camera at high ISO. note there was heaps of ambient light and light pollution. The result, ny camera captured stars I couldn't even see.

Koffee_Kosmo

GK I just had it on Auto setting as I was in a moving car KK

Brett_H

I've never shot stars or lightening or fireworks but spiders....I've shot spiders.....

Brett_H

It's not sharp due to my fear.....

GeekKopi

Brett H wrote:

I've never shot stars or lightening or fireworks but spiders....I've shot spiders.....

this cannot be unseen. Thanks B.

GeekKopi

Killer sunrise the other morning. The sky was magic - all kinds of vivid colours.... well worth getting up early. Photo taken before the sun hit the horizon. ISO100, 11mm, f8, 408s | NiSi Filters ND1000, NiSi GND8

Brett_H

Lovely! How are you allowed to leave the nest at that hour with a young one at home and a permanently tired significant other?? I was given permission to mow today because the children couldn't be seen in the grass. Perhaps there's a new thread idea....

FreshCoffee2

Really lovely photo. Just as a point of interest, what effect do the special filters have, EG had you only had a protective UV or Daylight or whatever filter on the front, (or for that matter removed whatever protective filter from the front for the shoot) would the photo have looked the same? Or to put it another way...are your special filters adding any effect? ...Questions, questions.... ;D

Brett_H

And good ones. I don't want to steal GKs Thunder but I've used a ND filter when there was too much light and I wanted a slow-capture to blur a waterfall. GK will explain it better!

GeekKopi

Fresh Coffee wrote:

Really lovely photo. Just as a point of interest, what effect do the special filters have, EG had you only had a protective UV filter or some such thing on the front, (or for that matter removed whatever protective filter from the front for the shoot) would the photo have looked the same? Or to put it another way...are your special filters adding any effect? ...Questions from the floor 😉

Hi FC I'm using a graduated filter plus a ND (nuetral density filter). The grad is darker on the top and clear on the bottom (gradual effect). This is to avoid blowing out the sky (too bright) and is mainly required due to the limited dynamic range of dslr camera sensors. The ND filter I used in that photo is 10 stops which means that the light is reduced by a factor of 10 (logarithmic scale). So therefore giving me an exposure time of 408 seconds in that photo. Without the ND filter the water would look choppy and the clouds won't have any movement (trails). The effect I was going for is silky smooth water and blurred clouds with trails. Here is a photo without the ND filter but with a grad filter. Videos here on my website http://photographyconcierge.me/pages/introduction-to-nisi

GeekKopi

Brett H wrote:

And good ones. I don't want to steal GKs Thunder but I've used a ND filter when there was too much light and I wanted a slow-capture to blur a waterfall. GK will explain it better!

as Brett said. There are many strengths of ND filters from 2 stops to 10 stops plus you can stack them to get even larger stops of light.

Brett_H

Some spectacular pictures on that website mate. Very schmick altogether!!

GeekKopi

Brett H wrote:

Some spectacular pictures on that website mate. Very schmick altogether!!

thanks B. It's all coming together. Slowly but surely. I'm about to add options for prints and canvasses too. A little hobby sometimes can generate a little income stream. At least it pays for my gear.

FreshCoffee2

Thanks for explanations guys, very helpful and interestink especially the graduated filter scario 🙂

GeekKopi

90% timing, 10% skill. Post sunset dusk. Blood red sky. I took this photo last night. Today it got featured on a few social media sites. 2 minute exposure @ ISO100, f11, 11mm at 8:55pm.

Brett_H

Just lovely! We have a new Nikon friend joining us from Teds!! It's being delivered because the thought of braving the city was too much to bear so when I saw free postage.... No points for guessing what model but it means I'll the availability for me to use a camera will now be greater as it won't be tied up in the studio!!

Koffee_Kosmo

Brett H wrote:

Just lovely! We have a new Nikon friend joining us from Teds!! It's being delivered because the thought of braving the city was too much to bear so when I saw free postage.... No points for guessing what model but it means I'll the availability for me to use a camera will now be greater as it won't be tied up in the studio!!

Good, You can come over and take some photos on my sound system and a coffee This meet up has been 2 years in the making folks :stir And that dusk photo is beautiful KK

GeekKopi

Brett H wrote:

Just lovely! We have a new Nikon friend joining us from Teds!! It's being delivered because the thought of braving the city was too much to bear so when I saw free postage.... No points for guessing what model but it means I'll the availability for me to use a camera will now be greater as it won't be tied up in the studio!!

Mmmm. If I had to guess it would be a Nikon d810. Or you went totally left field and got a canon eos 5diii with its shonky DR /stir.

Brett_H

Or better yet, a 50mpx 5dR with a sigma 18-55 lens circa 2003. >😃

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