My first decent long-exposure photograph
A 30 min long exposure at eravikulam, facing south towards Anai mudi.
A 30 min long exposure at eravikulam, facing south towards Anai mudi.
A 30 min long exposure at eravikulam, facing south towards Anai mudi.
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Actually the shutter thingy is only 30 sec.. not even min. I used a cable release on my D200 with bulb mode to shoot this. I really wanted an all night one, but on D200, after 30 min, the CCD gets heated up and started to produce red flares. Infact this photo had those flares too which I removed in post-processing. I think either an high end DSLR like D2x or a film camera is needed for hours worth of long-exposure.
Btw are you good with shieldtails ? I found one there and I suspect its a new species..
Beautiful!
Super shot dude …. definately some thing new and different from you …
very cool!
Kewl!
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Kalyan. was just wondering. why not take a snap every, say, 5 mins. and add up (OR mask)all the pictures.
I have a mode in my canon s2 funnily named intervalometer which i used for the time-lapsed thing at Manhattan. Am planning to try out the ORing thing now.
Kalyan your pic’s exif reads 18 odd mins exposure. Nice shot though cannot dream of capturing such a thing in Bangalore atleast.
rgds
Niri
Btw I picked up the DVD’s from your friend tomorrow. He was saying that he will not be going back to the UK.. so you want me to keep it here or pass it to someone ?
(thanks anyway.. itching to go home and see them 😀 )
naa he is not the one who bought it … i passed it on thru someone else.
all that you need to do is – see enjoy – make a copy for yourself and to harsha also and give the original to Jayanth Sharma he will take care of the rest.
go home dude — take rest — relax watch the 5 DVDs aramse learn new thinsg from the master 😉
Nice
My first such attempt was ruined by batteries dying on me and since then (or since winter started) haven’t gone out to shoot again.
I will have to check with you about those post processing tips to get rid of red flares – some day over chat.
Nice picture 🙂
Can’t say anything but the non-technical “wow,that must have been difficult!” to the photograph…but to this comment of yours:
Btw I picked up the DVD’s from your friend tomorrow.
I must say….how did you manage to do something in the past tense…in the future?? Looks like the time exposure has got into your deeds too!
Oh it is awesome. Took my breath away. do you have a higher resolution copy elsewhere?
Nice one.. Wondering how you could do that. Have to try atleast a 15 min with the 350D.
btw, what happened to your plan to come down here ?
– Ranjit
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“I used a cable release on my D200 with bulb mode to shoot this.”
Is this feature available for the D70 ?
-PSK
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This can very well be posted at too.
Desire to stay ahead 😉
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Yes D70 has a B mode….
How did you manage to get the arc fit in rule of 3rds? OR is this a crop?
Nice!
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Hey there, no I amn’t but Chaitra in Kartik’s lab is as close to one as you will find. I’ll send you his e-mail id…The star streaks seem too long for 30 secs, whats your focal length?
natasha
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It has a B mode but no cable release. You click once with the remote to open the shutter, the second time to shut it in B mode. Or it shuts on its own in 30 mins
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You have a D200 now?! Yay!
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What is B mode ? The only way to get more than 30 sec shutter is to use the IR remote in D70
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Errr. its 30 sec.. not 30 min.
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Oh I picked it up along with that big lens. I still prefer the colors from the D70 though.
This is full-frame. I had a GPS unit, so knew the exact south and setup the camera to suit that.
Its sitting on my mac.. will mail it to you or something.
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B = Bulb Mode! Coming from you I had to go back and check
D70 has a bulb mode which you can enter only if you are in a the manual setting program. The shutter remains open as long as the button is pressed down. I used it for cleaning the CCD till I discovered the mirror lock
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Aha Sorry 🙂
Yeah the IR remote lets you take your hands off the camera.. 🙂
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I don’t know the D200, the D70 can stay open for 30 mins. Its the setting I used for my Orion over B’lore image…besides your exif says abt 18-19 mins, like someone else pointed out at 17mm, which sounds reasonable for the length of the star streak. Just check it once….I’ve sent you Chaitra’s mail.
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I wonder what it’ll look like if you take a frame every night at the same time in the same place, then you should be able to see the movement of stars due to the revolution of the earth and not the rotation. 🙂 What do you think it should look like?
Simply superb….
this is awesome…
Interesting idea.. but that will mean I will need to leave the tripod behind, rooted to the ground. Even slight change in position will ruin the whole thing.
BTW,
did you get a chance to climb Anai Mudi?
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Nope. The forest guards who were suppose to come with me backed out last mine coz of other work.
I’m going back there this weekend.. so hope to do it on this trip.
Too good…
Looks like some sky scrapers moving around there…
With loads of traffic…
Great Pic…..
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Yeah, get a slide with your N80; you can get good scan of it
Nice Shot.
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I really feel like I want to experience this. But I dont know whether I will be brave enof to do it. But it sure should be refreshing to breathe fresh air and living so close to nature. Awesome pic as always !!
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And the green tree frogs in Australia…
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