Some low light photos

[bishop]

I'm just re-hashing my hobby photography, and I find that I'm drawn to low-light situations. Examples follow.

EDIT: see below for the better version of #2.

 

[strat1117]

Very nice, Jonathan. I particularly like the textures in the two pictures of the wooden gears, especially the first one. (Is it parts of a clock?)

 

[Austin]

Very cool pictures. What settings do you use? Are you using a light meter?

 

[thunderball]

Nice. I almost wonder if the second one would look better if the bottle in the foreground was in focus (instead of the boxes behind) but neat effect anyway. I especially like the 'dial' ones. Cool shots.

 

[bishop]

Very nice, Jonathan. I particularly like the textures in the two pictures of the wooden gears, especially the first one. (Is it parts of a clock?)

Thank you! It's actually a tumbler from an old vault door I took out of a mill office. I had plans to use it in a house (I was in college at the time and actually thought I could do that) but wound up donating it to a local museum, along with a 3-ton safe. I kept the tumbler as a memento.

 

[bishop]

Nice. I almost wonder if the second one would look better if the bottle in the foreground was in focus (instead of the boxes behind) but neat effect anyway. I especially like the 'dial' ones. Cool shots.

It would. I wasn't paying attention to thumbnails and uploaded the alternate shot. Here's the better one:

 

[bishop]

Very cool pictures. What settings do you use? Are you using a light meter?

These were in a batch of my first "revival" shots; that is, using a DSLR for the first time in a very long time. I just fiddled with the settings until I got what I wanted.

Everything was done in aperture priority mode. The ink bottle shots were at 400 speed, f-stop of 8, shutter 1/20, and the exposure brought down just a bit. The papers (my wife's cardmaking stuff) were taken at 200 speed and f-stop of 8, shutter at 1/125. The tumblers were done at 200 speed, f/8, and shutter 1/20.

The outdoor pic, of our town square, was at 200 speed, f/11, shutter 1/60.

 

[WhosYerBob]

Very nice. I always enjoy available light photography.

 

[grisha]

Nice very professionally.

 

[SideshowB]

I love low-light photography as well. That's one of the reasons I bought the Nikon 35mm F1.8 DX lens.

 

[bishop]

I love low-light photography as well. That's one of the reasons I bought the Nikon 35mm F1.8 DX lens.

Is there a good equivalent for Sony (Minolta AF mount) DSLR's?

 

[bishop]

I'm piloting a new portfolio on my website:

http://photos.secondlookediting.com/

 

[JEEP]

Excellent shots.


Regards.

Jakob

 

[Scissors]

I was very fond of low light and time exposure photos many years back. I have a set of 'em at my old flickr account, which starts here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/etalia/7899813/in/set-197735/

and ends at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/etalia/7901817/in/set-197735/

I don't know if I even have the actual slides any more. I hope I do...I'd hate to think this is all that's left of my early years of interest in photography.

 

[rich-hill]

Did you do any processing to blur backgrounds? Or did that come naturally with the f stop at 8?

 

[bishop]

Did you do any processing to blur backgrounds? Or did that come naturally with the f stop at 8?

Came naturally. I'm a big believer in depth of field.