Re: San Diego by night

2004-02-27 Thread Boris Liberman 
Hi!

Ib I read a few books and watched postings to try learn the tricks of doing
Ib these long night exposures.
Ib Amateur as I am, but eager to learn from the myriads of those clearly less
Ib amateur than I, I'd love 
Ib to receive your advice on what to do better.
Ib Weather was muggy, temperature mid-50's (bl...y cold for San Diego), PZ-1P
Ib with (old) Takumar 
Ib 135mm F2.5, and velbon tripod, F8 for ~8secs on Fujicolor 200
Ib http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2157930
Ib I also wanted to tell those who may venture to this area, that this was just
Ib so easy to get to, behind the Il Fornaio restaurant on Coronado, is a path
Ib with splendid views of downtown SD just waiting to tickle your silver cells.
Ib All comments welcome.
Ib Thanks
Ib Ian

This old Takumar is a good lens, ain't it? g...

I think you did very well, or should I say you're less amateur than
me? g

Oh well, my wife just found a bad misprint in above sentence... Time
to sign off for today...

Anyway, the view is splendid and the execution is precise.

Boris

Re: San Diego by night

2004-02-24 Thread Peter Alling 
I'd have gone for a darker sky.  One of the secrets of night photography as 
taught
to me by an old news photographer is to bracket by 2-4 stops rather than 1 
or 1/2
stop increments.

At 02:14 AM 2/24/04, you wrote:
I read a few books and watched postings to try learn the tricks of doing
these long night exposures.
Amateur as I am, but eager to learn from the myriads of those clearly less
amateur than I, I'd love
to receive your advice on what to do better.
Weather was muggy, temperature mid-50's (bl...y cold for San Diego), PZ-1P
with (old) Takumar
135mm F2.5, and velbon tripod, F8 for ~8secs on Fujicolor 200
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2157930
I also wanted to tell those who may venture to this area, that this was just
so easy to get to, behind the Il Fornaio restaurant on Coronado, is a path
with splendid views of downtown SD just waiting to tickle your silver cells.
All comments welcome.
Thanks
Ian
I drink to make other people interesting.
-- George Jean Nathan