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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 491852" data-attributes="member: 13090">For shot number one I had my tripod set up and the shot framed long in advance; then it was just a matter of waiting, hoping the light will cooperate and do something gorgeous. So, in short, I was in place and ready to shoot while there was still plenty of ambient light to focus by and the focus setting never changed while I took a series of shots.Shot number two is one of a series that was taken in ambient light as well and focus was not an issue.For shot number three I was shooting in almost total darkness (only half an hour or so after shot number two was taken) but the focus was locked in from that previous shot. I wanted to see the night sky in the shot as it appeared to naked eye but I also wanted to get the rock formation exposed like you see it in the shot. To get everything I wanted I needed to expose the night sky for twenty seconds. To illuminate and warm up the rock formation like you see it, I used a flashlight (with an incandescent bulb) to light paint with. The rock formation was &quot;painted&quot; for the last seven or eight seconds of the total exposure.....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 491852, member: 13090"] For shot number one I had my tripod set up and the shot framed long in advance; then it was just a matter of waiting, hoping the light will cooperate and do something gorgeous. So, in short, I was in place and ready to shoot while there was still plenty of ambient light to focus by and the focus setting never changed while I took a series of shots. Shot number two is one of a series that was taken in ambient light as well and focus was not an issue. For shot number three I was shooting in almost total darkness (only half an hour or so after shot number two was taken) but the focus was locked in from that previous shot. I wanted to see the night sky in the shot as it appeared to naked eye but I also wanted to get the rock formation exposed like you see it in the shot. To get everything I wanted I needed to expose the night sky for twenty seconds. To illuminate and warm up the rock formation like you see it, I used a flashlight (with an incandescent bulb) to light paint with. The rock formation was "painted" for the last seven or eight seconds of the total exposure. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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