Thread: Disco under Stars - Cape Conran - trial light painting

Recently spent a week at Cape Conran and took heaps of pictures. Since my return I've been busy processing and trying some new processes.

This one was a bit of spur of the moment thing while taking shots at night of the jetty at West Cape boat ramp. Shot under 1/2 moon and consists of a series of images blended. Types of shots consisted of natural light (moon) to get the stars, interior light on and painted with my light panting lamp. This is the first type I've tried blending like this.

Originally Posted by stooge

Forgot to ask David, why f2.8 on a landscape shot? I thought f16 or such would be better, yes that would mean a longer exposure but also better DOF. Interested to know

Agree that stopping it down would be better for the DOF. I was limited by the 30 sec exposure to stop the stars turning into streaks and f2.8 seemed to work at the time so I kind of stuck with it. Someting like f16 would have either blown the time way out or bumped the ISO into the noisy regions.

Here's the one of the jetty at West Cape I was actually there to shoot (the disco being just a sur of the moment thing). With this one the camera is pointed up a bit higher than the others and the moon is just out of view. I think there is what some people call a "moon bow" visible in the clouds. (EDIT - no longer think this is a moon bow. Further investigation shows the ring at the top of the picture may be a 22 deg halo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22%C2%B0_halo )

The other bright object is a planet (got to look up which one).