Comments on: Grab Bag — Trailhead Photography, Greg Hill Video http://www.wildsnow.com/372/grab-bag-trailhead-photography-greg-hill-video/ Backcountry Skiing Weblog Blog, FAQs, more, links and info about randonnee, telemark and backcountry ski mountaineering. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:44:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lou http://www.wildsnow.com/372/grab-bag-trailhead-photography-greg-hill-video/comment-page-1/#comment-4217 Lou Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:37:23 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=372#comment-4217 Scott, I use a tripod (have to for that kind of shot), using manual exposure I set a tight F stop then guess at the exposure time, and take a few test shots (assuming I'm shooting when there is still evening light, otherwise you just set the camera up to stay open as long as you want, then wait for the lightning). The idea is to use a long exposure time that keeps the camera shutter open waiting for the lightning. Then you just keep taking shots till you run out of memory card. During some shots the lightning will strike and that's when you get the nice image. The thing I have the hardest time with is if I'm trying to get a foreground as I did in this shot, as I want the foreground to be in focus as well as the distant lightning. For this shot I set the lens at infinity, then backed off a hair so I had hyperfocal distance and got as much of the foreground in focus as possible. If necessary I then make up for slightly out of focus foreground by a bit of extra sharpening in Photoshop. A headlamp is essential for fiddling around with the lens and camera settings. It also might work to just set the camera exposure on TV and dial in a nice long time, but then the exposure could get whacked out because of different light in the clouds and such. Either way, if there is much evening light it also helps to use a low ISO so the camera wants to do nice long time exposures, and the resulting shots have less noise. Here is the EXIF: Original date/time: 2006:08:12 11:24:54 Exposure time: 10/1 Shutter speed: 10.00 F-stop: 13.0 ISO speed: 100 Focal length: 18.0000 Flash: Not fired Exposure mode: Manual White balance: Auto Orientation: Top-left Aperture: 7.4009 Exposure bias: 0.0000 Metering mode: Pattern Exposure program: Manual Scott, I use a tripod (have to for that kind of shot), using manual exposure I set a tight F stop then guess at the exposure time, and take a few test shots (assuming I’m shooting when there is still evening light, otherwise you just set the camera up to stay open as long as you want, then wait for the lightning). The idea is to use a long exposure time that keeps the camera shutter open waiting for the lightning. Then you just keep taking shots till you run out of memory card. During some shots the lightning will strike and that’s when you get the nice image. The thing I have the hardest time with is if I’m trying to get a foreground as I did in this shot, as I want the foreground to be in focus as well as the distant lightning. For this shot I set the lens at infinity, then backed off a hair so I had hyperfocal distance and got as much of the foreground in focus as possible. If necessary I then make up for slightly out of focus foreground by a bit of extra sharpening in Photoshop. A headlamp is essential for fiddling around with the lens and camera settings.

It also might work to just set the camera exposure on TV and dial in a nice long time, but then the exposure could get whacked out because of different light in the clouds and such.

Either way, if there is much evening light it also helps to use a low ISO so the camera wants to do nice long time exposures, and the resulting shots have less noise.

Here is the EXIF:

Original date/time: 2006:08:12 11:24:54
Exposure time: 10/1
Shutter speed: 10.00
F-stop: 13.0
ISO speed: 100
Focal length: 18.0000
Flash: Not fired
Exposure mode: Manual
White balance: Auto
Orientation: Top-left
Aperture: 7.4009
Exposure bias: 0.0000
Metering mode: Pattern
Exposure program: Manual

]]> By: Scott Harris http://www.wildsnow.com/372/grab-bag-trailhead-photography-greg-hill-video/comment-page-1/#comment-4216 Scott Harris Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:47:45 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=372#comment-4216 Nice pic Lou. Can you share your EXIF info on the picture? Also, any technique (tripod, etc.) that you used? Nice pic Lou. Can you share your EXIF info on the picture? Also, any technique (tripod, etc.) that you used?

]]> By: steve romeo http://www.wildsnow.com/372/grab-bag-trailhead-photography-greg-hill-video/comment-page-1/#comment-4209 steve romeo Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:09:25 +0000 http://www.wildsnow.com/?p=372#comment-4209 Hey Greg, Goes to show that we go through life the same way...dreaming of winter! I just bought plane tickets to New Zealand to cure my fix!! Steve Hey Greg,

Goes to show that we go through life the same way…dreaming of winter!

I just bought plane tickets to New Zealand to cure my fix!!

Steve

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