BPC: Took some really strange pics tonight, pretty cool.

[Nate Crisman]

http://NathanCrisman.smugmug.com/photos/272680645_kp2sy-XL.jpg


http://NathanCrisman.smugmug.com/photos/272679109_mdz59-XL.jpg

The second picture had 7 people involved:

Me at camera on top of a van roof "dodging" the fire with my pinky finger for 28sec of the 30 second exposure.

2 guys painting the trees with airy AC 1000watt spotlights, one with red gel.

1 guy painting the odd tree way out in the field on the right side with 2 2000candlepower flashlights.

1 model holding the gas can

2 girls working the flash on the model

Fun shit

[coltan]

creepy.But cool. They are confusing..Having a dark sky but very bright outside.
Did you guys drink goats blood after too? :p

[Nate Crisman]

creepy.But cool. They are confusing..Having a dark sky but very bright outside.
Did you guys drink goats blood after too? :p

Goats blood = marshmallows :P

It took (2) 1000watt stuper strong AC spotlights and (2) 2million candlepower battery spotlights to light up the scene. We had some serious lighting out there. not to mention a portable studio strobe on the model.

I got to do some cloning, dodging, and burning in Ps for the grass around the model. We didn't have a tight enough snoot to keep the light from flash off the ground around the model becuase the people holding the flash had to be so far away o stay out of the picture.

[gtluke]

needs more hdr

[Hinz]

needs more boobies

[blcknspo0ln]

That's some creep shit, but it looks cool as hell 8) What's BPC mean?

[Greg97GSX]

needs more boobies

+1

[Nate Crisman]

That's some creep shit, but it looks cool as hell 8) What's BPC mean?

Beware: Photographic Content. It's for the anti photography fags who click on a thread that's titled about photography, read all 4 pages, then complain that it was a waste of their time and shouldn't be allowed on a
DSM message board.

Just me being spitefull actually :evil:

[Nate Crisman]

needs more hdr

no HDR involved, that's one single 30 second exposure with no PS tricks. Just a slight adjustment to overall contrast and brightness in lightroom when converted from RAW to JPG.

The only HDR involved is my sticking my finger in front of the lens for ~28 seconds to block the fire so it only overexposed a little. Like dodging on a regular enlarger print.

[95RedRS]

The tree line looks awesome, How it just stops at the tips where the trees meet the sky...Its very Bold and outlined.

I would've never thought of that.

[steveVR4]

Thats cool shit. Will make my BS waterfall pics from this hotel look weak, but I'll post them anyway to piss off the haters. :)

[DrSmile]

If you can somehow take a second exposure of the DARK sky with a lot of stars that pic would be even cooler. Very artsy stuff, is this still for school?

[Nate Crisman]

If you can somehow take a second exposure of the DARK sky with a lot of stars that pic would be even cooler. Very artsy stuff, is this still for school?

yeah still for school, project was to make a surreal space with a single exposure using 4 different light sources at the same time. No photoshop allowed since we have to hand in the RAW file with the print, since NEF files are un-alterable.

I have a few more of the same basic shot from later in the night where the sky is just black, the same 6 or 7 stars are in it the same, just rotated to the right. I think that was just it for stars in the frame. But longer exposures and less strength of the artificial lights would have made the stars brighter.

One thing I want to do over summer is some star trails w/ light painting. Like hour long exposures so the stars become long streaks. Dress all in black so I can run around in the frame and not show up, and paint the scene in with a small flashlight using gels for color changes. With a small flashlight/hour exposure Id have alot more control over the tones of the scene vs 30second & super strong lights.

We should have a campout & night photo party over the summer. Also want to make a big grand landscape of the delaware water gap w/ bridge and the streaks of car lights in the same manor. Also those harsh turns before the bridge. Definatly a hike up in the day, setup camp, shoot all night, hike down next morning kinda deal.

I gotta get one of the remote cords with timer so I can set shutter speeds longer than 30 seconds. The D200 goes up to 30 seconds..then it's BULB where you have to hold the button down. Nikon F's you into buying the $100 remote to do this.

[steveVR4]

The D200 wont work with the ML-L3 remote? That thing is less than $20 and it works great. You can click it once to open the shutter, and click it again an hour later to close it.

[Nate Crisman]

The D200 wont work with the ML-L3 remote? That thing is less than $20 and it works great. You can click it once to open the shutter, and click it again an hour later to close it.

Nope, the D200, D2H and D2X only work with the wired 10 pin remotes from nikon. There is no infrared sensor to use with the D40-D80 type wireless remotes that are super cheap (and work well).

The nikon remote does all crazy stuff..timers, intervals, and can make camera setting adjustments. But it's big $ when all I want is the basic timer.

[NitrousPete]

Nate, I got a cheapie $29 remote for my D200 with a locking button. Sure it's not as fancy as the MC-36, but for super long exposures, stopwatches are cheap. Lock the button, set your alarm clock, and drink a few beers.

Cool photo by the way. What's with all the perspective distortion on the left? Is that cropped from the 10.5 fish?

[hindle]

Nate, I got a cheapie $29 remote for my D200 with a locking button. Sure it's not as fancy as the MC-36, but for super long exposures, stopwatches are cheap. Lock the button, set your alarm clock, and drink a few beers.

Cool photo by the way. What's with all the perspective distortion on the left? Is that cropped from the 10.5 fish?

Well, hook us D200 guys up with the info! I agree with nate, I don't really want to shell out all that money for a high-tech remote.

[NitrousPete]

The remote says "ADIDT M1 REMOTE CORD" on the back. I picked it up at the Photo Center in Bricktown. http://thephotocenter.com/index.html

I would imagine they are all over the big auction site and others. There are other cheapie wired remotes for the Nikon 10 pin too. A quick search for "D200 remote" yeilded a pile of sub $10 hits on Ebay.

[crazyb]

holllly shit! Nice!!!!

[Nate Crisman]

Nate, I got a cheapie $29 remote for my D200 with a locking button. Sure it's not as fancy as the MC-36, but for super long exposures, stopwatches are cheap. Lock the button, set your alarm clock, and drink a few beers.

Cool photo by the way. What's with all the perspective distortion on the left? Is that cropped from the 10.5 fish?

it's a 10.5mm nikon lens, but it's not cropped at all. I guess for some reason perspective distortion is magnified when the "subject" is closer to the camera, becuase the right side isn't bent much at all. :?