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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: DZDub <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:30:34 -0500
Thanks Jim.  I try to remember to do more moonlight photography, but it
only seems to happen when I am on a photo holiday and thinking more about
opportunities for things like that.

Joel W.


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> That's a great shot, Joel.  I've got to get out more at night.  All I seem
> to see are neon signs. :~(
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DZDub" <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 9:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] I've added my night shot to TOPE2
>
>
> > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
> > chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> >
> >
> > Your excellent shot got me thinking about focusing in the dark.
> >
> > This is a shot I made in the Porcupine Mts of Lake of the Clouds by
> > moonlight last September:
> >
> > http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=1322
> >
> > How did I focus it?  For a moment, I couldn't remember what I did.  It
> was
> > too dark to see much of anything through the viewfinder. Then I
> > remembered.
> > I had shined a flashlight on the rocks about 20 or 30 feet ahead and was
> > able to get the camera to focus on that.  The first couple of attempts I
> > had cut off the lake on the right side.  So I had to shoot it several
> > times
> > and could only verify my composition once the exposure was done.
> >
> > I almost never remember to carry a flashlight, but I wouldn't have gotten
> > to my vantage point without one (Schnozz can vouch for me on that).
> >
> > Joel W.
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