I like it, Marnie. Great subject to experiment with. I'm guessing that the sky/subject light mix might be better a little later than this, before the sky goes quite black, so I'd try even longer shutter times.
On sharpness: your ISO and aperture are probably optimal, depending on the lens of course. How solid is your tripod? Have you hung a weight from it to stabilize it more? A cotton bag with a few nearby rocks in it might help. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:04 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, I took a stab at night photography of the local oil refinery. > > I used a tripod, remote, 2 second timer setting, shot in manual, ISO 100, > f/11, and 1/4 a second (lower than that I wasn't getting enough light). > > And I found my best results were right before it got really dark. But they > came out not very sharp (although I used a good lens). As I drove away I > realized I forgot to turn off the lens IS (I used a Canon). So I guess I > have to try again with it off and see if I do better. > > http://mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/pie.html > > Any suggestions about what different f stops, etc. to use for a better > result, please feel free to let me know. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
