Sunday, January 31, 2010

Car Light Trails 1


Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon 18 - 70
f/22 at 15 seconds
ISO 100

I thought I would continue with some night photography. On my way home tonight I got off the highway and made my way to an overpass. Luckily this one had a sidewalk so it was OK for me to be there with my tripod and camera gear.

I shot this on Auto white balance but in post I switched it to tungsten. I was in manual exposure mode and I closed the lens down to get as long an exposure as possible. For this shot the shutter was open for a full 15 seconds which allowed many cars to pass and leave their mark in the photograph.

This shot was pretty straightforward. Tomorrow I will present another where I did something a little different.

2 comments:

  1. Try daylight using a large # ND filter, you get eerie looking empty streets or neat streaky shadows of people

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  2. I like the sound of that. I will give it a try sometime.

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