RE: Nathan's PAD 27/12/2008: I bought a tripod!

Nathan mon ami,

Oh don’t worry about a cable release…. An old wives tale! :-) hell just squeeze 
down and don’t breathe! It’s worked hundreds, if not thousands of times over 
the past 50 years! Don’t think about it, just do it! :-)

Just put the camera on tripod, lens f.22, ASA 160 and go for it. :-)

 

ted

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Thanks for looking and the suggestions, Ted. I kept the exposure at 4 seconds 
because to go longer with the M8 I need to use the B setting, and for that in 
turn I need a cable release, which I did not bring with me, and which I could 
not find in any of the local shops. If I find one, I will try. The exposure 
here was f11 and 4 sec., so I should be able to go up to f22 and 15 sec. if I 
get hold of a cable release.

 

However, it will be very difficult to have light streaks all across the circle. 
The traffic patterns (as determined by the lights) are such that you only get 
significant traffic on one side of the circle only at any given moment.

 

Cheers,

Nathan

 

On 28/12/2008, at 18:03, Ted Grant wrote:





Nathan showed:  A time exposure.

Subject: Nathan's PAD 27/12/2008: I bought a tripod!

 

When I posted the view from my sister's apartment the other day, some people 
suggested that the image would be better if the cars were rendered as streaks 
of light. So on the first shopping day after Christmas I bought a cheap tripod 
(all of €10) and in the evening I set up the M8 on the tripod on my sister's 
window sill. I was not sure if the M8 was compatible with a tripod ;-) but it 
turned out it was. So I made several 4-second exposures, like this one:

 

http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4253606_netUM#444023538_kbEBS-O-LB <<<<

 

Hi Nathan,

Interesting.

However may I suggest a 30 to 45 second exposure next time. Or longer? Wild 
guess really. But the M8 and ASA rating 160 and allow the camera to set the 
exposure time with lens stopped down to 11 – 16 – or 22.  But let the camera do 
it’s own thing first!

The longer exposure would allow vehicle lights to fill many of the blank areas 
on the road and in the circle itself. Now I said maybe?

When I’ve shot this type of scene, I’d shoot one at what the camera selected, 
then add 15 seconds in 15 sec increments for a dozen or so frames. And in some 
cases cut 15 seconds because you never knew what you had until the film was 
developed.

 

Remember that’s shooting film, so we bracketed considerably, “just in case!” 
:-) Most of the time nearly every frame “worked” to some degree.

 

But with digital every frame can be checked as each exposure completes. In this 
type of scene, a blessing of digital! :-) But I’d also bracket even with an M8 
because you still don’t really see the best until it’s big on the computer 
screen. :-) Imagine I had the audacity and the nerve to type that to a guy who 
produces smashing great mages like you do. :-) :-)

 

Cheers,

ted

 

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