ISO 1600
Here is another shot from my first attempt at stars/moonlight out with the new camera. Looking at the LCD screen of my camera and "chimping", as Jim Patterson puts it, I was sloshing around the mud in the Yolo Bypass trying to find something to use in my foreground. Locating an interesting foreground is the biggest challenge in this wetlands area, and it is even more difficult at 11:08pm at night! Ducks were flapping madly, clouds were heading a completely different direction than I had seen on the satellite images earlier in the day, and I was really having a great time testing out the higher ISOs on the new camera.
The yellow haze of the clouds on the left is coming from a combo of moonlight and highway I-80 traffic/West Sacramento urban lights. The fog was thicker than it looks in this photo. I used a flashlight covered with a lens cloth to light-paint the grasses in the foreground. It didn't do much, but you can see a few more blades of marsh grass than if I hadn't.
Technical note: I haven't tried the in-camera high-ISO noise reduction yet. If you have any opinions on that, please let me know!
View a larger version of this photo here
This is one single image, no HDR.
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 17-40L @ 17mm
30 second exposure @ F9
No Filters
In-Camera-Long-Exposure Noise Reduction
ISO 1600
ISO 1600
Here is another shot from my first attempt at stars/moonlight out with the new camera. Looking at the LCD screen of my camera and "chimping", as Jim Patterson puts it, I was sloshing around the mud in the Yolo Bypass trying to find something to use in my foreground. Locating an interesting foreground is the biggest challenge in this wetlands area, and it is even more difficult at 11:08pm at night! Ducks were flapping madly, clouds were heading a completely different direction than I had seen on the satellite images earlier in the day, and I was really having a great time testing out the higher ISOs on the new camera.
The yellow haze of the clouds on the left is coming from a combo of moonlight and highway I-80 traffic/West Sacramento urban lights. The fog was thicker than it looks in this photo. I used a flashlight covered with a lens cloth to light-paint the grasses in the foreground. It didn't do much, but you can see a few more blades of marsh grass than if I hadn't.
Technical note: I haven't tried the in-camera high-ISO noise reduction yet. If you have any opinions on that, please let me know!
View a larger version of this photo here
This is one single image, no HDR.
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 17-40L @ 17mm
30 second exposure @ F9
No Filters
In-Camera-Long-Exposure Noise Reduction
ISO 1600