Photo Competition #19 - Ends 2-August

[stirlsilver]

LIFE... In long exposure

Basically, you shot needs to show movement through the use of a long exposure. Anything else is up to you.

Rules:

Your photo(s) (max 2) must be titled
Only adjustments to Brightness & Contrast are allowed
Photos in Grayscale are allowed
Cropping is allowed
All other photo adjustments including colour curve adjustments and HDRs are not allowed
Photos must be taken during the course of this competition (no archive shots)


That's it!

[WhiteD3]

Taken on Friday night looking in either direction from a footbridge over Salisbury Rd in Kowloon. I'd had a few beers (as you do) and forgot to set the WB setting; so I'm not crazy about the colour in these pics but under the rules I can't fix it. :(

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/1851/090724speedsalisburyrdk.jpg
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/1851/090724speedsalisburyrdk.jpg

Footnote re Beers: These were taken without a tripod, just balancing the camera on the rail. A couple of beers do quieten the DT's!:angel:

[dullbird]

good for you for having a go! i will see if i can get a photo in this comp sorry i have missed the others.....just been really rushing around and dont seem to have 5 mins to my self lately:(

[werdan]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/07/114.jpg

Taken yesterday at the summit of Mt Useful. (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mt+useful&sll=-37.796462,145.167692&sspn=0.012344,0.01826&ie=UTF8&z=10)

[werdan]

good for you for having a go! i will see if i can get a photo in this comp sorry i have missed the others.....just been really rushing around and dont seem to have 5 mins to my self lately:(

Tsk. Tsk. And it was your idea to make the 'Must be shot this week' clause in the first place. :p :D

[dullbird]

Tsk. Tsk. And it was your idea to make the '
Must be shot this week' clause in the first place. :p :D

aaaaa but that was when I ran the comps and it was only a trend I started but congratulating someone for doing it.

these comps aren't run by me so they have there own little rules:p

[p38arover]

I have some I took in May.....

[Yorkie]

does this count?, playing around trying to work my canon out by trial and error! :)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/08/2011.jpg

[Bushie]

As I will be away over most of the next 10 days (and can't be sure of internet) Werdan will be doing the vote counting for this comp.


Martyn

[Bushie]

does this count?, playing around trying to work my canon out by trial and error! :)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/08/2011.jpg


you shot needs to show movement through the use of a long exposure.At 1/30 sec, I think it probably meets the criteria

[werdan]

Come on people! Post your pics!

I want to be able to give my full three votes! :)

[300+]

The shot in the duration of the comp makes it hard. Some comps allow two shots with one from the archives, which gives me a chance of a single entry.

Another option to keep it current would be to say must be taken in the last 6 or 12 months. That will stop those with years of archives winning every comp, without excluding those who are two busy to pop out and take a special shot.

Cheers, Steve

[stirlsilver]

I knew that by setting the restriction of submitting photos only taken during the course of this competition would reduce the number of submissions considerably.

It's not hard just to go out one night, sit a camera on a bin and take a long exposure shot of a car going past. Or a photo of a bird flapping its wings. The wind blowing through a tree ect. It may not be the best photo in the world, but what does it matter, it might be interesting. I guess having to do that isn't convenient enough.

What I wanted was photos that were taken with the intention to be submitted into the competition, not an archive family snap that shows a bit of movement blur that coincidentally meets the rules of the competition.

[stirlsilver]

I didn't think I could submit photos since I set the rules, but after checking it seems that I can.

So this is what I got after spending 10mins with the camera facing out the window.

Reversing Ghost:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/08/2009.jpg
Exposure: 4sec
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100
Length: 50mm

Floating Lights:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/08/2010.jpg
Exposure: 2.5sec
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100
Length: 50mm

[300+]

OK, you win. Here is one taken during the duration of the comp. I didn't realise that there was any time left in this one, but I've just scraped in. I had to think a moment on how to get a long exposure shot.

The only edit was to reduce the brightness a touch to hide the sensor noise. I took about 30 pics to get the lines right and the sensor is pretty hot and noisy. I also cropped a little.

This was F10, 100 ISO, 30 seconds. Shorter exposures meant I couldn't get the wheels in as I had to change position to reach that side. Exposure was controlled by the aperture.

Cheers, Steve

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[stirlsilver]

Nicely done Steve!
What camera were you using for this? I wouldn't have expected there to be much sensor noise at ISO100??

[300+]

It is a Sony A100. There were multi-coloured speckles in the same place on the last few shots. I can't think what else it could be. Dust would be a grey/black and invisible in this shot. It would be a major sensor failure to have 40 hot pixels.

I think I should have turned off the steady shot as this is likely my problem. You would hear it adjusting the sensor position the whole time, but I didn't realise the significance at the time.

Cheers, Steve

[stirlsilver]

This is off topic, but do you mean spots like these?
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/08/1975.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/08/1976.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/08/1977.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/08/1978.jpg

I got these at ISO400 and exposed for 15 seconds. The spots are in the same locations in all long exposure shots.

A little while back I did some long exposure tests with the lens cap on. 30 seconds ISO400 there was quite a few coloured circles and white pixels, 30 seconds ISO 100 there was less. 30 seconds ISO400 with long exposure noise reduction on and they were all gone.

I'm curious if there should actually be that many on an image (I don't know since it's my first SLR) the camera is a Canon 450D.

[werdan]

Stirling, if you are having issues with a hot pixel, you can get Canon to turn it off in the firmware. The camera just uses an average of the 8 surrounding pixels instead.

[300+]

This is off topic, but do you mean spots like these?

A little while back I did some long exposure tests with the lens cap on. 30 seconds ISO400 there was quite a few coloured circles and white pixels, 30 seconds ISO 100 there was less. 30 seconds ISO400 with long exposure noise reduction on and they were all gone.


The noise I was getting was similar and I have since realised that I had noise reduction turned off for my shots. Doh!

No time to reshoot as I'm at the airport on my way out again.

Cheers, Steve

[Bushie]

Comp now closed, votes can be placed in this thread until 10:00pm Tuesday night.



Martyn

[Bushie]

My votes



300+
WhiteD3 (1st Photo)
Werdan


Martyn

[WhiteD3]

1) 300+
2) Werdan
3) Stirlsilver

[werdan]

1) 300+
2) WhiteD3 (pic 2)
3) Stirlsilver (pic 2)

(This is looking easy to count. :) )

[dullbird]

1) 300+

[mjm295]

1) Werdan - IMHO the best shot of life in long exposure :-)
2) 300+

300+ what lenses do you have for the A100?

[300+]

1: Werden
2: WhiteD3
3: Stirlsilvr

[300+]

300+ what lenses do you have for the A100?

I bought the twin lens kit so I have the 18-70 and 70-300 Sony lenses. I have also bought the Tamron 17-50 F2.8 which is what I used for this pic.

I've just read the rules and noticed that I forgot to put the title on my pic.

It is "searchlight" and I will explain why later.

Cheers, Steve

[mjm295]

I bought the twin lens kit so I have the 18-70 and 70-300 Sony lenses. I have also bought the Tamron 17-50 F2.8 which is what I used for this pic.

I've just read the rules and noticed that I forgot to put the title on my pic.

It is "searchlight" and I will explain why later.

Cheers, Steve

Steve, I also have the twin lens kit. I've been looking at other lenses but cash is tight at the minute. Just ordered a UV filter and have been looking for a CPL filter too.

Mark

[300+]

Steve, I also have the twin lens kit. I've been looking at other lenses but cash is tight at the minute. Just ordered a UV filter and have been looking for a CPL filter too.

Mark

Tell me about it. The Tamron has a 67mm thread. Decent filters for that cost a fortune!!!

Cheers, Steve

[werdan]

And the winner is...
300+

http://www.reddock.net/aulro/movement-comp.jpg

Congratulations Steve!

You have won a fabulous, all expenses paid trip to deep within the back of brain, to come up with the topic and rules for competition #20.

Enjoy!

[WhiteD3]

Congrats Steve. What did you use as the light source to trace around the bus?

[mjm295]

And the winner is...
300+



Congratulations Steve!

You have won a fabulous, all expenses paid trip to deep within the back of brain, to come up with the topic and rules for competition #20.

Enjoy!

21?

[300+]

Congrats Steve. What did you use as the light source to trace around the bus?

I have a mini apple promotional torch from when they launched searchlight. It has an exposed bulb and is generally useless. Unless you want an exposed bulb that is...

You can also use a mini-maglight with the reflector unscrewed.

If you want recreate this I recommend multiple exposures. It will keep the noise down as each one can be shorter and you don't have to reshoot with an error. So I would do one exposure for the roof. One for the front, one for the side, etc. This will also allow you to vary the expose in PS. As editing was not allowed I had to control the speed of movement to get the brightness right for the light. The angle of the torch on the side was different from the roof, so much less light reached the camera. I moved quickly for the roof, medium fast for the front and slowly for the sides.

It was shot on a black table at night with all the lights off.

Cheers, Steve

[werdan]

21?

21!!