I like the fog in those. Especially shot #2.
Chuck Norcutt
Jez Cunningham wrote:
> Two OM-4 dawn shots on Velvia here:
> http://picasaweb.google.com/jez.cunningham/Temp02
> It wasn't too dark to think about metering, but I just let 'auto' do its
> thing. But with very different results - just 5 frames apart (seems I
> didn't digitise the intermediate frames)
>
> jez
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> It was getting very dark out. The stars were becoming quite visible in all
>> but the brightest part of the sky and even then there was a planet showing
>> up there. I attempted to spot-meter the sky and used that meter reading for
>> a few Velvia 100 shots. Knowing that I'd bump into reciprocity failure, I
>> did bracket the shot +1 -1 exposure. I also attempted to determine
>> exposure
>> with the E-1. After a half-dozen or so pictures, I changed rolls and
>> switched to Provia 100F. Each exposure was getting longer and longer and
>> I'm now shooting wide-open with the 24/2.8. Exposure times were pushing and
>> exceeding two minutes. While waiting for the camera, I thought things
>> through and a couple items came to mind: Provia doesn't have a big problem
>> with reciprocity failure under two minutes, but it does red-shift something
>> fierce. I was concerned about blowing out the highlights, so I did dial in
>> -2/3 exposure compensation as the averaged scene also included the
>> blackened
>> foreground and the deep sky up above. As it turned out, the non
>> exposure-compensated shots were blown a bit as I expected.
>>
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