Glad you LIKEd it. I thought it was so unlikely that I'd get something
usable (couldn't focus, no tripod, not sure of exposure) that I almost
didn't bother taking it.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/13/2013 5:12 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
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> (Sorry, I've just been on Facebook. <g>)
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> On Apr 13, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
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>> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=4354>
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>> 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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