arizona high country The Sky is Falling

A just for fun shot, Shot a bulb for 50 minutes at F 3.5 the at F 16

for ten minutes. Rather striking effect in my own humble opinion.

Enjoy ! Gary

5/5

Like the idea, but it is a bit out of focus

wow! was it a bit misty that night? I have a c330 too, any thoughts about fixing the lens fall-off problem? I do a lot of star trails work and all my shots have those under-exposed parts round the edges. sometimes it looks really nice, i think it works in this case. regards naren

I normally shoot most of mine at bulb and 3.5 got for an hour, It usually depend on what the humidity level is and the amount of airglow on the particular night . I live at high altitude so the air is usually rather pristine . I'm thinking of doing a star trails and night travel series series with as many aircraft passing threw the plane of the shot as possible . But, like the reflections I have no idea how they will be accepted. I may have to wait until spring as its starting to get brutally cold at night. Thanks for the comment.I'm also pleased to hear all of we old TLR film shooters aren't gone.You might also want to give Fuji Provia 100 or Konica Impressa 50 a try on you star shots, i've had great success with both. Gary

I like the idea very much, I have never seen this before. Without boasting I had it myself once, but I never had the courage and time to try and I dismissed it as rather complicated. Is there no problem of moving the tripod/camera during the change of aperture using multiple exposure ?

 

I rarely get to locations with low sky noise, and like to sleep at night :-). But this photograph convinced me that there is potential in this kind of work. I shoot Velvia 100F for star trails and it works pretty well on long exposures (unlike Velvia 50). Thank you for sharing. Best wishes, Peter.

Thank you for your comment. There is really no problem in adjusting the aperture during the shot. I use a very small red flash light so don't flash over into the lens while i'm making the adjustment. I'm a real night person, so look for a couple other strange experiments to show up during the summer. I'd love to do it during the winter but the weather here is just to cold and the snow way to deep to try to find an isolated area for night photography .

I tried to use your idea in practice. Here is the result. Do you like it ? I used 10 minutes at f/8 and then 2 minutes at f/4, 20 mm. There is a lot of interfering light and haze, though. Thank you for your inspiration. Best regards. Peter

Very nice Peter. The longer the exposure the greater the results. I always enjoy the unusual and of coarse star trails are one of my favorites,. Thank you for your most kind comments.