Night Photo's

[corkspotter]

Good evening all,

As you can see from my recent uploads i've started trying some night shots, mainly out of pure boredom as nothing happening down my way. I've now started using a tripod instead of chancing my arm handheld with 800 ASA and 1600 ASA. My most recent shot uploaded is of EI-SLG taken at 100ASA with an 13 second exposure at f/s 11 with an automatic white balance on the camera set at tungsten light.

Does anyone out there have any tips or point in the right direction for that perfect night shot???

Regards,

Paul

[Machlooper]

Hi Paul,
          Your going about it the right way. I shoot manual at 100 ISO and adjust the shutter speed and aperture on the internal light meter. May I suggest you shoot RAW and use the eye-dropper tool in PS to fix the WB.
This shot is 100 iso and 13 secs @ f/8 (I think, off the top of my head)....



Grumman S-2F3AT Turbo Firecat - Click here for larger image

[corkspotter]

Thanks very much for the reply Pat,

Will give it a go later.

Regards,

Paul

[corkspotter]

Hey Pat and all.

Thanks for tip earlier. Having shot in RAW fir the first time tonight, is there any special way of editing the RAW file or do I edit as normal. I'm in a completely new area now. Just opened my Photoshop and it opened the duke completely different!

Regards,

Paul

[corkspotter]

Fecking auto spelling, that was meant to say opened the picture completely different!

[Machlooper]

Hi Paul,
          It's a case of playing around with the sliders until your happy with the image. Exposure adjustment is handy and In the top right you'll have a drop down menu for colour balance. Select custom and an eye dropper tool will appear. Use this to click in a white or light grey piece of the image and it will give you the proper white balance. The Mountain symbol will open up the sharpness adjust meant. I usually put this to .6 pixels and between 20 and 40 strength though that probably overkill a bit. Alm I can say is okay around till you happy and save your settings or I'd you uss your settings that your happy with you can choose to use previous conversion in the right hand drop down menu and just fine tune from there.
Hope this makes a little bit of sense???

[corkspotter]

It does indeed Pat,

Was messing around last night with it. Stuck on the late shift again tonight so I'll play around with it again.

Thanks again.

Appreciate it.

Regards,

Paul

[Machlooper]

Eh, sorry for the typos !! Bloody iPhone !!!

[corkspotter]

Hey Machlooper,

1st photo shot in raw now up on the site. 10 second exposure shot at 100 ASA using the camera's light meter. Please see below link.

http://www.worldairpics.com/photo/1044038/

Any suggestions re editing are welcome.

Regards,

Paul

[Tony Kearns]

Paul,
What a picture, looks really great and very atmospheric
Tony K

[aw139]

Great picture Corkspotter,




Regards aW139

[Machlooper]

Hi Paul,

        Looks like there may still be a wee bit of a colour cast off the lights. Is the aircraft actually white?
I usually play around with the dropper tool on various highlights and greys until I think the whites are white

[corkspotter]

Thanks for the comments lads, appreciate it.

Thanks Machlooper, I'll have to sit down and play around with it a bit more.

Thanks again,

Regards,

Paul