So was I :-) You just have to pay attention to what you are painting.
If you were to be around me during a test shot all you'd hear would be me counting "one one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand....." while I went nuts waving my mini maglight all over the place. :-) DS 2008/10/21 AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Me too, Dave. > I was referring to the lightbrushing. :-) > Jostein > > 2008/10/21 David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2008/10/21 AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Exposure time was 926 seconds, ie. roughly 15 minutes. The >>> lightbrushing was sort of an afterthought, I didn't do it through more >>> than half the exposure, I think. It's mostly a hit & miss process to >>> me. Beginners luck, I guess. >> >> To take some of the hit a miss out of the process, when I don't have >> enough time at a location to experiment with long exposures, is to use >> short (1.5-2 min) high ISO exposures to work out my base exposure, how >> much light painting I need & confirm correct focus. >> >> Then I work backwards to calculate the exposure time for the lowest ISO >> setting. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
