Exploits of an Amateur Photographer

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Longer exposures and the need for a tripod

Well I can see that this looks something of a mess. However, it is a lot better than my earlier attempts. The Nikon tries to force the flash in any occasion so you need to force it off and play around with the length of exposure. I will try and post up the earlier disasters. 

I sound almost like I know what I am talking about but this is not the case. Changing the exposure changes the amount of time the shutter is left open and therefore changing the amount of light allowed into the image. I think! My earlier attempts gave me a dark and out of focus attempt. As I don't yet have a tripod I could only do marginally longer exposures and try and support it against something. 

This was the best I could get, but in reality the moon was perfectly clear not the bodged mess I achieved. But it still gives some indication of the strange skyline that night. 

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