Comments on: Pitch-Black Photography: Moon over the East China Sea http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-16/1210 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Wed, 23 May 2012 12:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Howard Messing http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-16/1210#comment-35294 Howard Messing Sat, 16 May 2009 17:29:12 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-16/1210#comment-35294 Jeffrey, These low-light photos (nice by the way), made me think about the opposite.... Just curious. Are you aware there is a total solar eclipse on July 22. The path of totality runs just south of mainland Japan (http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009iau/TSE2009-fig04.GIF) and it will have the longest period of totality in our lifetime (6 minutes, 30 seconds or so). From where you are it will not be total, but about 60% of the sun's disk will be eclipsed. Do you have any plans to see and/or photograph it? <span class='jfriedl'>We've had had a hotel reservation for a year on an island that will get almost 4 minutes of totality, but it's looking to be absolutely impossible to get transport to the island, so we may end up losing out. Still trying. Even if do get there, though, I have no desire to photograph it. I want to just experience it. —Jeffrey</span> Jeffrey, These low-light photos (nice by the way), made me think about the opposite…. Just curious. Are you aware there is a total solar eclipse on July 22. The path of totality runs just south of mainland Japan (http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2009/TSE2009iau/TSE2009-fig04.GIF) and it will have the longest period of totality in our lifetime (6 minutes, 30 seconds or so). From where you are it will not be total, but about 60% of the sun’s disk will be eclipsed.

Do you have any plans to see and/or photograph it?

We’ve had had a hotel reservation for a year on an island that will get almost 4 minutes of totality, but it’s looking to be absolutely impossible to get transport to the island, so we may end up losing out. Still trying. Even if do get there, though, I have no desire to photograph it. I want to just experience it. —Jeffrey

]]> By: Zachary http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-16/1210#comment-35293 Zachary Sat, 16 May 2009 15:25:35 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2009-05-16/1210#comment-35293 I like these. I especially like the one of Fumie on the pier. The thing about taking photos at night is, why should the photo end up much lighter than how the scene appears to your eyes? Unless you're shooting for the NSA or CIA, trying to get more discerning ability in the dark through the camera than you can with your bare eyes, I say dial the exposure way down for these kinds of shots. In fact, I just came back from shooting some night shots myself, and I had to dial the exposure way, way down (-2.0 EV or so) to approximate something like what my eye saw. I consider this nothing but a bug in the exposure system. <span class='jfriedl'>If I wanted to match the scene as I actually saw it, I'd have just left the lens cap on. :-) Yeah, it overexposes low-light scenes, probably just showing off because it's the only camera that <i>can</i> overexpose low-light scenes like that. :-) —Jeffrey</span> I like these. I especially like the one of Fumie on the pier.

The thing about taking photos at night is, why should the photo end up much lighter than how the scene appears to your eyes? Unless you’re shooting for the NSA or CIA, trying to get more discerning ability in the dark through the camera than you can with your bare eyes, I say dial the exposure way down for these kinds of shots. In fact, I just came back from shooting some night shots myself, and I had to dial the exposure way, way down (-2.0 EV or so) to approximate something like what my eye saw. I consider this nothing but a bug in the exposure system.

If I wanted to match the scene as I actually saw it, I’d have just left the lens cap on. :-) Yeah, it overexposes low-light scenes, probably just showing off because it’s the only camera that can overexpose low-light scenes like that. :-) —Jeffrey

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