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Basically shoved all my photography equipment in the closet in 2013 when we left Alaska. Now that I am back my plan is to work on photographing the aurora's. I realize my brain has missed plenty of technology leaps with digital photography. In the past I would use a fast lens and ISO 400 films and long exposures.
How do the newer digital cameras perform with their night vision capabilities?
Basically shoved all my photography equipment in the closet in 2013 when we left Alaska. Now that I am back my plan is to work on photographing the aurora's. I realize my brain has missed plenty of technology leaps with digital photography. In the past I would use a fast lens and ISO 400 films and long exposures.
How do the newer digital cameras perform with their night vision capabilities?
I will admit I do not do night photography as there is a bit too much light pollution where I live to create something strong IMO....that said the way newer cameras can handle high ISO is quite surprising. When you couple that with much better noise reduction software you can get keepers in the 8,000 - 12,000 ISO range that would have a digital hot mess just a decade ago.
I will admit I do not do night photography as there is a bit too much light pollution where I live to create something strong IMO....that said the way newer cameras can handle high ISO is quite surprising. When you couple that with much better noise reduction software you can get keepers in the 8,000 - 12,000 ISO range that would have a digital hot mess just a decade ago.
on dpreview.com they have galleries with example photos filtered by camera, lens and such i am sure you can find examples of what you are looking for with a little digging. but i second the sentiment that the new cameras can yield amazing results that could not not be imagined a decade ago.
i don't want to post links since i do not know if they are kosher on here but a simple google search of canon r5 northern lights yields a lot of example photos.
on dpreview.com they have galleries with example photos filtered by camera, lens and such i am sure you can find examples of what you are looking for with a little digging. but i second the sentiment that the new cameras can yield amazing results that could not not be imagined a decade ago.
i don't want to post links since i do not know if they are kosher on here but a simple google search of canon r5 northern lights yields a lot of example photos.
Thank you for asking, to clarify to the group. You can always post photos as examples as long as you #1) Do not pawn them off as your own (if they are not) and #2) You properly credit the photographer and/or the image source (again if not your own)
Exposure
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter Speed: 8s
Exposure Mode: Manual
Exposure Comp.: -1.0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 125
Lens: 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G
Focal Length: 45mm
Focus Mode: AF-S
AF-Area Mode: Wide-area AF
VR:
AF Fine Tune: OFF
Exposure
Aperture: f/5.3
Shutter Speed: 2.5s
Exposure Mode: Aperture Priority
Exposure Comp.: 0EV
Exposure Tuning:
Metering: Matrix
ISO Sensitivity: ISO 100
so i used relatively slow ISO and longer shutters. Tripod and remote, of course the D600 is a 12 year old body and the lenses are consumer kit lenses for the most part
Very nice, thank you for sharing. Would you mind sharing your light set up? I initially thought you were doing light painting, but looking more closely looks like a few strobes with strip boxes maybe?
Here's a few photos I took in 2011 of night shots, with long exposures. The first one was taken with regular settings, all taken with a tripod of course (Canon 60D and I think the EF-S 18-135 mm lens).
Night time photography
