Share your night vision.
 

I don't know how to take pictures at night.
But I do it anyway.
Sometimes I get results I like.
A little inscrutable, a little lonely, a little creepy.

Here are some of my favorite 'found' night shots.
Please post some of yours, too.

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You're channeling Manet in that bar shot.

haha, yeah it looks a little like that Bar at the Folies Bergere painting...I think its called. Is that what you're referring to?

it was a total accident. I had the camera sitting on the bar across from her and was taking photos randomly and surreptitiously. I was actually more interested in getting a shot of the guy with the 'fro behind her date...now that I think of it, I did manage to get a shot of him...let me see

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the guy on the right end of the bar...never managed to get an ideal shot of him, though.
this one's too grainy and muddy.

The tattoo & the laundry. Those two are spooky cool.
Thanks for sharing.

I like the motel picture with the neon sign.

The trick with low light shots is to use a tripod to keep the camera steady or to find something to rest the camera on. I've found that if the shutter speed is much below 1/60 second it's hard to hold the camera steady by hand.

Depending on your camera, you can increase the aperture (towards lower numbers) at the expense of depth of field or increase the ISO setting for your sensor at the expense of more noise (graininess) in the image.

It's always a pleasure to see your shots, MM. Love the Dockside Motel phot, very Eggleston.

I've been spoiling myself in sunlight any going positively nuclear with the flash when shooting at night. It doesn't evoke that same dreamy atmosphere but here's a fairly recent one of mine:

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Nice one Manic. I like how her pupils haven't had time to constrict by the flash.

I took this shot from inside my truck. I had to hold my breath so as not to steam the glass.

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thank you, dogzilla. I'm not much of a tripod person, though. not even those monopods. I don't like them. I like to carry my camera around in my hand - it's part of the enjoyment for me. so, combined with my lack of skill, I've learned to live with uneven results at night. with a few interesting ones on occasion. :-)

those snowflakes remind me of alveoli. beautiful, ring.

I love that, Manic. it has an unsettling paparazzi quality. which, of course, is fabulous. I'd like to see more of those.

Hardly a masterpiece, but neon lights at night always interest me:

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we don't want no stinking masterpieces here.
besides, it's a very nice photo. I like seeing into windows at night. for some reason it feels a little voyeuristic, even when it's a public place.

thank you for posting, smarts.

I saw a halo around the moon the other night and tried to capture it. Hand-holding the camera for the 1/2 second exposure caused a little camera shake. It made the moon look like a heart. I thought it was kind of cute.

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ha! that's really cool. thanks for posting.

I enjoy shooting at nite, but like mixed, I hate lugging a tripod around.

I used one for this shot though, only because it was on the roof of my hotel.......


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beautiful. where was that taken?

I don't get to large cities very often and so I don't have a lot of opportunities for night shots.
This is one from a trip to Austin a couple years ago.

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fabulous. love that.

i took this about 2 or 3 years ago now. for a handheld shot at night it turned out surprisngly clear.

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Thanks,mixed. This was from a rooftop in Toronto. Here's a couple more from that nite:


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thats pretty nifty paddyjoe

is that a light show?

nice, thanks for contributing, dlish. if I didn't know better, I'd say that could be Naples. they're big on the luxury boats around here, too.

gorgeous, paddyjoe. Toronto is my mother's favorite city and I can see why.

thanks MM.

if you look closely in the background, those vertical lights are from the worlds tallest tower. everything pales in comparison.

whoa. I didn't realize that's what it was.
it's a very impressive phallus for such a little country. :p

Walking to the gas station during a snowstorm:

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I hope the snow that is falling right now, lasts until after dark.

This is on the Glenora ferry going home toward Kingston from Picton, Ontario.
I think I had the camera on a solid object and used the timer to shoot the 1/2 second exposure.

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Just a few of my faves.

hey, thanks guys!

ring, RG and Marshall, sorry I missed your photos earlier.

Tower of the Americas in San Antonio,TX

Looking down from Tower of the Americas.

Those are really beautiful. Thanks.

I have way too many to post...

As some know---I love trees....you should post these on the tree thread...

Here is my favorite night shot:

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aw, man. now that is an incredible image. thank you.

Trying to capture the eclipse last night on my kit lenses:

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I found out the hard way that it isn't easy to shoot the moon. You need a telephoto (300 mm?), a tripod and you need to under expose by about 4 stops. Keep your exposure under 30 seconds or the earth will move on you and turn any stars into arcs.

30 seconds?! Jesus man, what settings were you using? I was doing my test shots handheld with 1/320 or 1/640 with f/4 and iso 100, and they were coming out great...but got thick cloud cover as soon as the eclipse started. :grumpy:

I didn't say to shoot at 30 seconds. I said to keep it under 30 seconds, as a general rule, and I explained why.
Somebody playing around with a slow kit lens (I assume 18-55mm, f3,5-f4.5) might be tempted to go wide angle and take a shot of the milky way, for example. This might cause the camera to want to go over 30 seconds on auto. The result would be arcs.

Edit: Here's a link that pretty much supports your argument: http://www.flickr.com/groups/canon70...7605132314286/

thank you, span. I kind of like your shots as they are. :)

me too....:thumbsup:

And, I agree with rmarshall. At nite the moon seems as bright as the sun to your metering system. Do some bracketing, and shoot a bunch 'o frames so you get one without the moon turning into a blur.....

I hear the eclipse was beautiful. Clouds were precipitating where I live.
Foggy at 4 in the morning, this street light was fiery crescent moon-like


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The moon reflected in one of my favorite lakes:

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Not bad for just using my little point-and-shoot.

not bad at all. very nice, actually.
thank you, snowy.

so deliciously eerie, ring! amazing........

I would love it on my wall.....

when did ring post that? I missed it!

It is beautiful. Reminds me a little of a piece of silkscreen artwork that my grandmother had in her house in the '70s.

And that is a compliment 'cause my Me-maw was cool. :p

It was a the bottom of the last page.
Thanks for the compliments, you two.

To all: Feel free to use the images I post here as you wish.

These are some interesting fireworks shots.
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yay! I have some fireworks shots, too, but none that good.

i forgot about my fireworks ones...i may have posted this before.

here's one of my favourites from burj khalifa's opening

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Here's from my first (yet the only) flight to Scotland. Sadly, I didn't know how to take any sharp photos with the camera I had. All I have is blurry ones...

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Thanks for the compliments, here are some more at CSU Stanislaus:

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span2 that last one is a great shot. love it. especially the golden hue in your pics

has anyone else eaten here?


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Forgot about my fireworks pics...

excellent, I love all these latest additions.
thanks for not letting my thread die. :)

1992-3? Camping in my cousin's teepee.

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Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade:
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ha! I remember that parade. do they still do that one?

I don't know. These were from some old slides I had converted to CD's.

Oh man, I've got boxes and boxes of old slides that I'd love to digitize.

And on a bit of a sad note, check this out.......


Kansas shop develops the last roll of Kodachrome, ever | DVICE

Paul Simon may have begged Mama don't take my Kodachrome away in his 1973 ode to the legendary color slide film, but now the unthinkable has happened, and never again will you be able to get your Kodachrome film developed.

On Thursday Dwayne's Photo in Parsons Kansas finally switched off the world's last remaining Kodachrome processing machine, after developing a roll with pictures of the shop and its staff shot by owner Dwayne Steinle just minutes earlier. Kodak ended the film's 74 year production run in 2009, and photographers from around the globe have been anxiously trying to get their final rolls in to Dwayne's before the deadline.

One of the last customers was Jim DeNike, who delivered 1,580 rolls railroad pictures for developing at $9.98 per roll. He says he had to borrow money from his father's retirement account to help pay for the work.

Unlike other color films such as Kodak's own Ektachrome, processing Kodachrome is an intensely complicated procedure that cannot be done at home. In addition to large and complex machinery, special dyes supplied by Kodak are needed during the process, and aficionados say that this is what endows it with such rich and vivid colors. Kodak made the last batch of the dyes last year, and Dwayne's has to crack open their one remaining can of blue to get the final rolls done on Thursday.

While the fancy processing requirements undoubtedly played a part in its demise, it's pretty obvious that digital photography is the real culprit in the death of Kodachrome.

Via New York Times

yeah, I read about this. very sad. i love old kodachrome photos.

I only had about 850 slides. I had them scanned when I worked in a camera store, so I got the employee discount. I paid for it by selling my old Kodak projector and some slide trays to a customer, about $225.
I still have my Canon A1 and FD lens and my projector screen.
Camera Kingston still sells and processes slide films, but the selection of films is dwindling.

I appreciate how many of the photos here - and the whole idea of the thread - transcend (or better yet, completely ignore) technical considerations. I have always found technique to be the most boring part of aesthetics. Hence, I really like most of these shots. Great idea for a thread!

nice collection 'o faces, ring......




here's the ave. at dusk:

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Yes, they do--my in-laws were just at WDW a few weeks ago, and my FIL took a bunch of pictures of it.

They no longer do the Main Street Electrical Parade here at Disneyland. They stopped it completely for a few years and sold all the lights, (I have one!) and then they brought it back at Disney's California Adventure. I find this odd as there is no "Main Street" in DCA.

Lots of stupid little changes that take away from the wonder of Disneyland have taken place in the last 5 years.

another one from the avenue.......


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These were taken with my phone. I liked the way the spotlight looked shining up on the underside of this plant.

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Love these ^ lots.

Some shots from Seal Beach Pier:

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why am I thinking...Zombieland

I can see it too. It was a quite drunk fisherman lumbering after his less drunk friends who seemed intent on leaving him behind. LOL!

A few years old now, but still one of my favorites.....


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Guiding lights
 

Taken in the car on the way back home from Lapland after New Year's Eve.

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Early morning fog rolls through the Port of Halifax, shot on my blackberry:
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One of a football stadium I shot last week. I like how it turned out.

ghostly visions from our ghost walk, lol. we didn't see shit, but I got a couple of worthwhile shots. our guide was not succinct enough to tell a good ghost story.

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I was in Paris last week for work. One night I went on a night cruise on the Seine and took this picture.

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From the lake a few weekends ago.

These are a little rough, but I thought they're worth posting- The Shanghai skyline at night!

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