I heard the term painting with light used to describe this method.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
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From: "Joseph McAllister" <pentax...@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Adorama: Last call on K-5 bodies-$739
On Feb 14, 2013, at 10:40 , Darren Addy wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote:
Segue for a bit with little reference other than "night shots".
A beautiful image taken in Alaska by Todd Salat, and today's APOD.
Yes, lovely.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130212.html
How did he light the lilies?
Without the flash being observed in the photo?
What was the date of the photo? What phase was the moon?
Light seems to be coming from the south.
The "above image" link takes you to the photographer's page with the
details. He says "I used my little headlamp to paint the lily pads
with a beam of light."
Moonrise for the date wasn't until after 3 AM (he doesn't give an
exact time of the exposure). They were not far from Anchorage, AK, so
skyglow could have provided some ambient light, as well.
Full text of the image:
The "Lily Red" Experience
My wife & I busted out of Anchorage on our much-anticipated September aurora
hunt, an event that marks the end of the busy Alaskan summer season. We
headed northeast up the Glenn Highway, took a left at the Lake Louise
junction, then bounced down a pothole-filled side road. We popped up the
truck camper along one of my favorite ponds that dot the region and stepped
out into crisp, clear and calm conditions. Stardate: September 13, 2012.
The smell of fall was in the air and, as my eyes adjusted to the darkness,
an aurora glow became apparent on the far northern horizon. Time to go to
work, although it felt more like play. The Milky Way galaxy stretched upward
against the deep black new moon (ie, no moon) skies while the bright
pinpoint of Jupiter shone like a beacon in the V-shaped pattern of Taurus
the Bull (just above the clouds). Further above, the tight but bright Seven
Sisters of the Pleiades open cluster twinkled prominently.
I set the exposure time for 20-seconds to burn in the starfield and, lo and
behold, a red glow appeared. I have seen the coveted red northern lights
this bright to the naked eye in the past but they are very rare. In this
case, the camera gets much credit for acting like night-vision goggles and
revealing what the less sensitive human eye has a harder time detecting. To
complete this composition, while the camera shutter was still locked open, I
used my little headlamp to paint the lily pads with a beam of light. "Lily
Red" set the mood for a great trip.
Photograph Information:
Year: 2012
Aperture: f2.8
Shutter: 20 sec
ISO: 4000
Shot with a Nikon Digital using a Nikon 17-35mm/f2.8 lens.
It sorta looks to me like he ran a "lighten" wand over the right hand far
shore. It gets grey and fuzzy before going back to black silhouetted trees.
Joseph McAllister
pentax...@mac.com
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