On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=4354>
>
> This is the backyard at my daughter's house in High Point, North
> Carolina the morning after I shot the soccer game. It wasn't in my plan
> to submit this as the "night shot" but when I stumbled down the stairs
> in the early morning for some coffee I could see this scene depicted
> from the many windows along the back side of the house.
>
> I had no idea if anything useful was going to result. It was impossible
> to focus but I recalled that the last shot at the soccer game was taken
> from about 30-40 feet away at 150mm. I was just hoping that at 14mm I'd
> have something near hyperfocal distance even focused at 30 feet. Turns
> out to have been true.
Your excellent shot got me thinking about focusing in the dark.
This is a shot I made in the Porcupine Mts of Lake of the Clouds by
moonlight last September:
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=1322
How did I focus it? For a moment, I couldn't remember what I did. It was
too dark to see much of anything through the viewfinder. Then I remembered.
I had shined a flashlight on the rocks about 20 or 30 feet ahead and was
able to get the camera to focus on that. The first couple of attempts I
had cut off the lake on the right side. So I had to shoot it several times
and could only verify my composition once the exposure was done.
I almost never remember to carry a flashlight, but I wouldn't have gotten
to my vantage point without one (Schnozz can vouch for me on that).
Joel W.
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