Yup. Will try again. Heck it's the first time I've used my remote. Which turned out to be supereasy.
Marnie aka Doe :-) Unfortunately for this refinery, my choices of positioning to take shots is very limited. In a message dated 5/14/2013 9:10:43 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Great start and worthy of revisiting. The IS thing can go either way and Canon may be in the leave on all the time for longer lenses but I would try it w/o. Next time stay there until it gets really dark; these cameras have the eyes of an owl. Mirror lock-up to limit vibration might make a difference but I have never tried it. Perfection is illusive in night photography. Enough platitudes to keep you going back, I hope. [email protected] wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 11:04:17 -0400 (EDT) > From:[email protected] > To:[email protected] > Subject: PESO - Nightshot - "American Pie" > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > 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. -- 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.
