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Hi there,

I'm wondering has anybody any experiences with artistic night shots shot in bulb mode otherwords long exposures especially with torches or other means involved as it's something you don't see alot of in photography it's different and fascinates me.
 
I have seen this being down by a friend of mine, the shots come out really well! Not sure how to do it well myself though!
 
I know a bit about it regarding camera set up putting it into manual and lowering the shutter speed so low that it automatic go into bulb mode
 
shane1980 said:
Hi there,

I'm wondering has anybody any experiences with artistic night shots shot in bulb mode otherwords long exposures especially with torches or other means involved as it's something you don't see alot of in photography it's different and fascinates me.
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Light painting (as it's called) is very popular. If you drop it into Google as a search term you'll find thousands of hits with examples, videos and tutorials.

Sometimes you know exactly what you're looking for, but you just need the right search term :thumbs:
 
shane1980 said:
Hi there,

I'm wondering has anybody any experiences with artistic night shots shot in bulb mode otherwords long exposures especially with torches or other means involved as it's something you don't see alot of in photography it's different and fascinates me.
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I have lots of experience of bulb mode and long exposures but not really the type you after.

I would suggest checking out the work of a fellow TPer who is a brilliant light painter/artist Andrew aka AndWhyNot

His photos can be seen here http://www.flickr.com/photos/andwhynot/

I think there is Also a useful tutorial on light painting in the tutorials section

Matt
MWHCVT
 
I only tend to use bulb with an ND10stop filter as usually 30secs can be long enough for most night shots.
 
Anybody try 2 minutes bulb mode or anything up to 20 mins or beyond
 
shane1980 said:
Anybody try 2 minutes bulb mode or anything up to 20 mins or beyond
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I have done up to 5 minutes for car light trails and 10 minutes for star trails I think my record would be about 14 minutes for aircraft light trails, the length of exposure is directly proportional to the amount of light reaching the sensor, that is where the skill comes from that can only really come from skill, experience and experimentation :thumbs:

This set shows a lot of my light trails you can see the exif so exposure details on all of them http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwhcvt/sets/72157622801523928/
There are many over 2 minutes
 
Wow pretty stunning images, any tips on getting started I know there's alot of trial and error involved.

How do you find spot light creative night shooting
 
shane1980 said:
Wow pretty stunning images, any tips on getting started I know there's alot of trial and error involved.

How do you find spot light creative night shooting
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When it comes to light trails my biggest tips would be get a tripod and a trigger if you don't already have them...other than that if you look in my signature there is a link to my guide to light trails in that guide there is also in the guide a link to a light trails location map with around 70 locations that a good for light trails, I do a lot of driving an I am always looking at new locations

Things like google earth and street view are also valuable tools

Matt
 
MWHCVT said:
I have done up to 5 minutes for car light trails and 10 minutes for star trails I think my record would be about 14 minutes for aircraft light trails, the length of exposure is directly proportional to the amount of light reaching the sensor, that is where the skill comes from that can only really come from skill, experience and experimentation :thumbs:

This set shows a lot of my light trails you can see the exif so exposure details on all of them http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwhcvt/sets/72157622801523928/
There are many over 2 minutes
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How do you combat the possibility of hot pixels with those long exposures, or is it not a problem?
 
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How do you combat the possibility of hot pixels with those long exposures, or is it not a problem?
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It's not normally an issue, most cameras will have the odd dead pixel which will lead to hot pixels bit they are never very troublesome and are easily cloned out, noise is not really an either as you are using a nice low ISO

Matt
 
MWHCVT said:
It's not normally an issue, most cameras will have the odd dead pixel which will lead to hot pixels bit they are never very troublesome and are easily cloned out, noise is not really an either as you are using a nice low ISO

Matt
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...and if you do find the odd bright red hot pixel shows up, most cameras have a long exposure noise reduction setting which maps them out.
 
Haha i was just reading this and thought....i know a man that can help, scrolled down a lil bit more and up you popped.
 
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