Light trail picture

I was only thinking this morning about doing a B&W light-trail...damn, beaten to it! :bang:

Nice shot though. :thumbs:
 
did this, this evening.

thoughts?


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appletart said:
did this, this evening.

thoughts?


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Seems very bright, over exposed. What's your white balance set to?

Here's one I took last night:

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This was taken just after 10PM and the road was well lit, but I only really took it as an example for this topic! The streetlights have killed the red rear lights of the cars but the whites came out well.

Here's the EXIF:

Camera: Sony DSLR-A300
Exposure: 20
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

File Size: 4.0 MB
File Type: JPEG
MIME Type: image/jpeg
Image Width: 2865
Image Height: 2340
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As said keep ISO low as poss, I aim for around 20sec so tweak the F stop till its about that. Get the background looking how you want first.

Light trails at airports are cool....

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The airport one looks good, and a different viewpoint to road ones. You are lucky to have found a spot where you can get to the end of the runway and take such interesting pics.

Hoppy, can I just clear up a point. You mentioned "set white balance to tungsten, or lower". Maybe I am reading this wrong, but are you saying these two pictures were set at tungsten, or you recommend setting at tungsten for them.

Thanks to all who have contributed to this topic, the tips and pictures are all useful, and I for one am going to give it a good try.
Trev
 
Trev4 said:
The airport one looks good, and a different viewpoint to road ones. You are lucky to have found a spot where you can get to the end of the runway and take such interesting pics.

Hoppy, can I just clear up a point. You mentioned "set white balance to tungsten, or lower". Maybe I am reading this wrong, but are you saying these two pictures were set at tungsten, or you recommend setting at tungsten for them.
Thanks to all who have contributed to this topic, the tips and pictures are all useful, and I for one am going to give it a good try.
Trev
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Sorry Trev. I'm suggesting setting WB to tungsten, to get rid of the yellow/orange colour cast. Street lighting varies a lot, but this will get you close/closer. Or set a custom white balance. Of course, you can always correct it later in post.
 
Thats great Hoppy and Forbidden biker, I'm showing my inexperience here, so thanks for helping.
Am planing to give it a good try very soon, just hope I can be as good as some pictures shown in this thread.
Trev
 
lukewoodford said:
Ive seen your tripod mate, I think it would mate a big difference if you upgraded.
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I've not stood on Westminster Bridge lately, but I bet it vibrated when that bus went buy. A tripod won't stop that.

Quite a few of these kind of pictures are taken from bridges and you can see it's a problem. IS/VR might help, if your lens has it. I know that the general advice with tripods and IS/VR is don't use it, either because it gets upset or just to save battery power when it is thought that you don't need it, but I've tried it with other subjects on a tripod (eg moon) and when it works it's really good. But sometimes it doesn't ;)
 
This is my only light trail photo really.. one of my first ever DSLR pics on a cheap tripod.
My tip would be to check if your camera strap has an eye piece cover for the viewfinder... mine does and I always forget, in fact i've never used it!
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I will try and get out some dark night soon to try more.. it's just so late before it gets dark now.
 
also use ND grads to keep the sky in check if it's not long gone down
 
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