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Mark
"If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting.
If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying"
My personal website - www.markvarleyphoto.co.uk
Unless I just happen across something interesting which is a spur of the moment thing, I will get to a location in daylight walk around it and choose my composition while there still is enough light to see/focus. (if in total darkness I use a torch beam for AF)
I am generally working toward the final capture with some ambient light still in the sky, where there in sky in the scene or it can look a bit odd if the sky area is totally dark.
So my process is something like this.
Arrive at location, walk around, choose composition and set up camera, choose a point of focus, generally a foreground detail, focus using AF and then turn AF off or it will try to AF for each capture which will likely screw up your focus.
Camera Bulb setting (or the longest possible if bulb setting not available) 100/200 ISO “f stop subjective but generally f5.6-f8” depending on lens and DOF etc, a wide lens of course will allow you a greater DOF at a wider aperture to some degree. Anything smaller than f8 and you will either need a longer exposure/more time to “
Then I will do a few test shots of deferent parts of the scene to see how the light looks etc, at this point the sky isn’t that important, they are just test shots, so if it blows out don’t worry about it.
Once I have that sorted, I wait until its almost dark (own judgment and somewhat trial and error, you will get a feel for it as you do more) and do the full paint in one go, often from different directions where possible (turning the torch off while you are moving position) you need to be aware of the lens angle of view so you don’t shine the torch back into it and cause flair.
I will do the full paint a few times as the light fades, and pick the “best” one.
Make sure you have/get a torch that is easy to turn on/off and that is powerful enough, 2 million candle power is enough for most things within about 50 meters or so, further away objects require longer paint time due to light fall off.
Also see my reply to Stuartf, which may also be helpful to you.
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Hope that makes some sort of sense.
Have fun
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I'm going to have a go using a flash to illuminate as I walk around the scene, see how that goes
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Mark
"If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting.
If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying"
My personal website - www.markvarleyphoto.co.uk
My friend has done some with just flash which looks pretty cool too, have fun
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Derelict Nudes book Available
Seduced by Light
They wouldn’t have made the cane if you weren’t meant to break the rules!
--
Mark
"If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting.
If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying"
My personal website - www.markvarleyphoto.co.uk
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Derelict Nudes book Available
Seduced by Light
They wouldn’t have made the cane if you weren’t meant to break the rules!