Shooting dust/dawn/night landscape in NPs
Janette
Can anyone give me some suggestions on shooting the landscape in NPs
(Arches, Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Canyonland) when it is dust-night and
dawn? Do I need to expose for a longer time? (more than few seconds?) Need
my flash or not? Also, if I want to shoot some night scene with the moon,
what technique i need? (again, exposure? f-stop? any priority? ....?) I just
use a Minolta505si, 28-80mm lens with a tripod.
Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks a lot!
Janette
zeitgeist
>
> Hi again!
>
> Can anyone give me some suggestions on shooting the landscape in NPs
> (Arches, Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Canyonland) when it is dust-night and
> dawn? Do I need to expose for a longer time? (more than few seconds?) Need
> my flash or not? Also, if I want to shoot some night scene with the moon,
> what technique i need? (again, exposure? f-stop? any priority? ....?) I just
> use a Minolta505si, 28-80mm lens with a tripod.
>
You need a tripod absolutely, not a skinny light weight one, and
preferably one with a cross brace to the center column so it firms it
and provides you a place to hang sandbags or your camera bag etc for
added wieght and dampening.
You need to contact the film's manufacturer to find out about the film's
reciprocity failure rate, (the longer the exposure the slower the film's
speed is, which can build up to several stops)
I placed a good hand held meter last despite the very importance of it
cause, well if you bracket widely you will come up with some keepers, I
mean it is a good idea to know your film's range of exposure to be able
to 'place' this brighter area at this end, know what the treashold of
the shadow area will be etc, but the chances are you will shoot just as
much film and end up with just as much wastage, with the loosey goosey
exposures there are sure to be disappointments and many of the keepers
will be happy accidents, but that is probably sure to happen with a
hundred meter readings with a zone 6 spot meter and an hour plotting on
a notepad.
oh, the moon is daylight exposure, it is lit by the sun. At such
intensity it will blow out it's area (it would take more than a 200mm to
record it with any significant size to be recognizable beyond the human
experience of perceiving a bright spot like that must be the moon.) a
long exposure can cause the moon to blur, it moves rather fast
considering.
flash is worthless beyond a stone's throw (or camera throw.) though you
can have fun with setting your camera up on a pod and running around
flashing everything (via color gels) and painting the valley with light.
Renate Moeller
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