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For night photography I like to shoot without a protective/UV filter because it causes reflection. I got so fed up with screwing the filter on and off that I bought a second, used, 25mm f1.8 lens just for night photography.
I shot this photo in a barely lit room with the Olympus Hand-held starlight mode. It takes 8 shots in a sequence and then combines all shots to reduce light and color noise. Works not only for starry nights!
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Olympus OM-D E-M10 MKII, M.Zuiko 25mm f1.8
MOON SHOT: No editing was done with the colors. Only "Re-sizing" and "50% Noise Reduction" was done by using "PhotoPad Image Editor". I took this photo indoor through my living room window.
We're filled up in May but we had a cancellation on one of our single-night events during the NightScaper conference in Moab on May 1st. We also have just one last spot remaining on our special event workshop in Yellowstone National Park. Spots on these and other events will be gone soon so secure yours today. See why our students keep coming back to learn more from Darren White and myself through our website www.NightPhotographyWorkshop.com.
If you're lucky enough to visit Double Arch in Arches National Park, please treat it with the utmost respect. Many people follow leave no trace principles and I like that. What would you think of going a step further and actually picking up a piece of trash?
No, I was not really camping at this location but it sure makes for a fun picture! Light from glowing stars, a rising moon, and a little tea light inside my tent combined to make this longtime vision come to life in an image that should look great in a print.
With our teaching workshops at this location, it wasn't hard to come up with this vision and so I came back on my own time (not during a workshop) with a plan to make it happen. Many thanks to workshop alumni Hal Mitzenmacher for joining me and making it such a memorable experience. :-)
If you're lucky enough to visit this location in Canyonlands National Park, Utah, please treat it with respect, follow "leave no trace" principles, and be very careful to minimize unnecessary risks.
Night Photography Workshop Notes: At this time, we're full in May and almost full in both July and August. We have spots available in April, June and September though so make sure to check out the details at www.NightPhotographyWorkshop.com to see which event fits your calendar..
I really like this shot of one of the commonest, and in some ways least interesting finches around. Not so much for its artistic appearance (although I enjoy the posture and how her foot is clasped around the 3 points of that red branch), but predominantly for the technical demonstration.
This shot - with a dark background too - was taken at ISO 2,200. Yes, ISO 2,200! And with only a little smart noise reduction (Topaz deNoize), you've got to look very, very hard for even a modicum of visible noise. The D500 really does offer up great speed opportunities in low light.
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I've previously posted a deliberately grainy processing of this shot to disguise the severe noise caused by the very high ISO needed to shoot handheld 80 minutes after sunset.
This version was an experiment with the Prime noise reduction module in the Elite version of DXO Photolab 3, aided by a reduction in microcontrast. Pretty decent for ISO 12,800 I think.
It does take quite a lot of processing time (you find out when it takes about a minute to save the image as a JPEG, because that's when the processing happens) but definitely worth it. This was about the noisiest worthwhile image I could find to test it, it's very unusual for me to shoot at such a high ISO.
It might be less satisfactory if there were more detail in the image that you wanted to keep - it would rule out the substantial reduction of microcontrast and you can run up against the limitations of detail capture in very low light - but the noise reduction is very good at distinguishing detail from noise and took out a vast amount of noise from this image on its own.
Starry Landscape Stacker tutorial: youtu.be/ZPYMJTrZmbI
This 20 app for apple users is totally worth it! So far I've got great results and I wanted to share it with you guys! Check out the tutorial and how easy it is to clean up your night image.
Sometimes it's nice to take a little break from the short exposure points of light nightscapes to see what happens when you open up a camera's sensor for a long time.
The noise goes away and the colors and details appear more prominent. And while the star trails may not appeal to everyone, they bring a sense of time to a photograph. Instead of showing light from an instant in time, they show the result of light captured while the earth rotates below the stars...
There is a lot more to this post... see the rest of the backstory, how I got the shot, and get free wallpaper from www.coloradocaptures.com/teton-time-shift.
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Arches & Canyonlands National Parks
A stitched, long exposure pano from this last summer. I processed the final image using Topaz Denoise and Clarity, and I just reviewed the new DeNoise 6 on my blog HERE.
I guess Baxter has not heard of "No Mow May".
Sigma 150-500 on a Canon EOS 7D hand held. Only noise was removed in Topaz Photo AI other than that no edits.
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Nicole and I just back from a long weekend at Arches National Park and did some night shooting on Friday night. The night skies in that part of the country are just amazing!....we got up at 11:00PM and had so much fun we didn't get back to our hotel until 4:30AM.
On a side note my condolences go out to all who were affected by the senseless act in Boston today.
On average, seven whitetails come to our pond every evening. One by one, they jump the fence and go down to the water to drink. They stay about 20 minutes, then jump the fence again and disappear into the woods.
This little doe is about 5 months old, probably 70-80 pounds.
A 2* rated image becomes a 4* just because of advancements in noise reduction software.
1/60th second ISO 6400 before sunrise at Porthcawl during one of those storms, think it was Ciara.
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Taken at Koolpin Gorge campsite, Kakadu National Park.
First attempt at this - learnt a few things... Focus on your desired tree/hill/foreground focal point before it gets dark! I had a lot of trial and error in manual focusing trying to get the tree sharp enough. It's definitely far from perfect. If anyone can suggest some good noise reduction techniques/software, please share! I am not happy with the my technique here. The noise was quite bad, and I am not sure how this image would go grain-wise if I tried to print it.