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Hi Folks,
How was the picture on this month's calendar page taken ?
Well, as I took it I can tell you
..... and it was not done in Photoshop or any other graphics package, the only aid I had on the night was a bottle of an extremely fine red wine, a Castillo San Lorenza Rioja Reserva 1999 if I recall
Many years ago, when rolls of film were the only way to take a picture, I used to do some of this stuff ..... time lapse photography .....
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It was always hit or miss, as you never knew what the picture would come out like until you had developed it, and yes, I used to do that myself as well. For the picture above I took a whole roll of 24 pictures with only one (the one above) coming out just right.
Time moves on and digital cameras with preview screens are now the norm, so last August, having drunk a few glasses of red wine, for some strange reason that I can't recall I was outside with a torch, and my digital SLR.
My wife and son thought I was stupid running around with a torch in the semi-darkness, but it was all worth it in the end.
Here are the first attempts ..... ranging from a 10 second exposure to a 30 second exposure, and yes, I am running around with the torch. The wine did help as by this time almost the whole bottle had gone :chuckle:
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It was about now that I thought I was on to something .....
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I then realised that the moon had come out and changed the position of the camera .....
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I then moved the picnic table at the back (by this time my wife and son had thought that I really had lost it), and made sure that the torch was pointing downwards all the way around. If I recall I managed to get in 4 runs round the car and hid behind it until the shutter closed.
And this was the last attempt and the one that is on the calendar, taken at ISO200, F4 and 30 seconds, focal length of 34mm (35mm equiv). The only Photoshop was to remove the registration. :clap:
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How was the picture on this month's calendar page taken ?
Well, as I took it I can tell you
..... and it was not done in Photoshop or any other graphics package, the only aid I had on the night was a bottle of an extremely fine red wine, a Castillo San Lorenza Rioja Reserva 1999 if I recall Many years ago, when rolls of film were the only way to take a picture, I used to do some of this stuff ..... time lapse photography .....
It was always hit or miss, as you never knew what the picture would come out like until you had developed it, and yes, I used to do that myself as well. For the picture above I took a whole roll of 24 pictures with only one (the one above) coming out just right.
Time moves on and digital cameras with preview screens are now the norm, so last August, having drunk a few glasses of red wine, for some strange reason that I can't recall I was outside with a torch, and my digital SLR.
My wife and son thought I was stupid running around with a torch in the semi-darkness, but it was all worth it in the end.
Here are the first attempts ..... ranging from a 10 second exposure to a 30 second exposure, and yes, I am running around with the torch. The wine did help as by this time almost the whole bottle had gone :chuckle:
It was about now that I thought I was on to something .....
I then realised that the moon had come out and changed the position of the camera .....
I then moved the picnic table at the back (by this time my wife and son had thought that I really had lost it), and made sure that the torch was pointing downwards all the way around. If I recall I managed to get in 4 runs round the car and hid behind it until the shutter closed.
And this was the last attempt and the one that is on the calendar, taken at ISO200, F4 and 30 seconds, focal length of 34mm (35mm equiv). The only Photoshop was to remove the registration. :clap:
