My flash suggestion was tongue-in-cheek and needs a smiley. You would need a really big flash to freeze the stars in the sky like that. ;-) Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:39 AM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:11 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > >> From: paul stenquist >>> On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >>>>> Look closely, he just used a big flash in the photo without star >>>>> trails. :-) Regards, Bob S. >>> I don't think he used a flash or any artificial light. The light >>> extends too far into the background, and it's too uniform. However, >>> it could be a combination of two exposures. One shot before the ball >>> dropped, the other after dark. >> >> That's a pretty hard edge shadow extending from that table thingy and from >> the low walls on the right side of the house in the photo without the star >> trails. >> >> There's some kind of hard light source to the camera's left. Car headlights >> perhaps? High beams could do that. > The sun -- or even the moon -- can do that. Car headlights wouldn't light the > distant background as this source has done and the foreground would be > brighter. > Paul >> >> The light is uniform in the one that does have the star trails. >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
