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Re: [OM] I've added my night shot to TOPE2

Subject: Re: [OM] I've added my night shot to TOPE2
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:12:59 -0400
LIKE

(Sorry, I've just been on Facebook. <g>)


On Apr 13, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=4354>
> 
> This is the backyard at my daughter's house in High Point, North 
> Carolina the morning after I shot the soccer game.  It wasn't in my plan 
> to submit this as the "night shot" but when I stumbled down the stairs 
> in the early morning for some coffee I could see this scene depicted 
> from the many windows along the back side of the house.
> 
> I had no idea if anything useful was going to result.  It was impossible 
> to focus but I recalled that the last shot at the soccer game was taken 
> from about 30-40 feet away at 150mm.  I was just hoping that at 14mm I'd 
> have something near hyperfocal distance even focused at 30 feet.  Turns 
> out to have been true.  I had no tripod available so rested the camera 
> on the railing of the back deck and pressed down hard with my hand on 
> top of the camera while I fired the shutter with the other.  The first 
> (auto) exposure was impossibly long (trying to produce daylight 
> apparently) so I took a guess, took a shot and then reset the shutter 
> speed to manual 0.6 sec for the next guess.  What you see is that shot 
> brightened about 1/2 stop.  The only other adjustment was to add 
> something from the clarity slider which had the effect of slightly 
> brightening the orange of the coming sunrise.  Oops.  I almost forgot. 
> I did clone out two very small yellow lights on the far bank as a 
> distraction.  I don't know what they are since no one lives there.
> 
> The small lake in the background it the town's reservoir and the bright 
> spot in the trees is the moon.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
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