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Night Rock
By Chris | October 15, 2008
On the full moon, I went to White Rock to do some night photos. I really like shooting at night because public places aren’t so busy. Honestly, I feel self-conscious when shooting in public. Shooting at night, I don’t have to concern myself with people watching me or asking me questions. It’s not that I don’t like people, it’s just me not feeling comfortable around strangers who may be watching me. I was in a solitary mood and night shooting suited me that night. I really enjoyed the time to myself.
I had figured shooting at night was an unusual pursuit. Ironically, it turns out that there was another night photographer shooting that night as well. It must have been a rare site having two night photographers in the same place! I saw him from a distance so we did not talk but I know his name. Some other fellows had mistaken him for me. So, if Gino is out there reading this, drop me a line as I would love to see your photo’s.
Shooting wise, I did have some challenges with the prolonged exposure as I don’t have a remote for firing the camera in “bulb” mode. The digital cameras these days don’t have a traditional trigger release. I need to look into a wireless solution. Anyway, most of my exposures were 30 seconds or less. To help compensate for shorter exposures, I had brought my SB-800 speedlight and fired it manually several times per exposure at 1/4 to 1/1 power. On a few “bulb” shots I actually held my finger on the button to keep the shutter open for up to 2 minutes. It certainly is not the recommended method for bulb shots since no matter how still you think your hand is, there will still be a small amount of camera shake. Unfortunetly, those shots I took did not turn out very well. There was too much lense flare.
Also, this time I remembered to set the Long Exposure Noise Reduction to “ON”! I am so proud of myself. I usually forget some sort of setting but I suppose that the more I shoot, the more I remember to adjust settings.
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