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To: jonrick46

I enjoy doing long-exposure photography for nighttime settings and even under ideal conditions it’s a challenge. You need a tripod to get any sharpness at all, it’s at times difficult to focus and the slightest movement of anything in the scene will lead to blurriness. If one is trying to take a picture in haste, there’s not enough time for setup, even if all the equipment is at hand. I would expect no better than that picture for a hand-held nighttime shot of a non-stationary illuminated object.

However, the photo is too poor to draw any sort of conclusion on what the photographer was attempting to photograph.


19 posted on 02/20/2010 9:29:25 AM PST by KamperKen
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To: KamperKen
I love nightime photography and you're right about the focus challenge. Kinda hard to focus without a distant light to focus on. I've been experimenting and buying new equipment over the past year.

Full moon nights are kind of fun but you lose a lot of stars to the moonlight.


20 posted on 02/20/2010 9:37:02 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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To: KamperKen

The autofocus camera has the worst problems with nightime focusing. However, this is not an autofocus camera because they need the subject centered. Notice the stong side lighting of the photo. It looks as if the camera shutter was opened long enough for a off camera flash to be triggered; perhaps from a nearby balcony. The nature of the strong side lighting gives their trick shot away.


28 posted on 02/20/2010 10:56:44 AM PST by jonrick46 (We're being water boarded with the sewage of Fascism.)
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