Thanks Peter and Markus for your comments. j
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:53:42 -0500, Peter J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still the second is amazingly good for such a huge exposure mistake. > > Juan Buhler wrote: > > >On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:24:27 -0500, frank theriault > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>>http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2085193/ > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > >>What a cool shot!! > >> > >>So, what do you do, open for a fairly long exposure, hoping to get > >>illumination from another camera? > >> > >>Tell me how you do that! > >> > >>I really like the photo, too.Great pose (especially him), and I like > >>the framing, with the rail and design of the wall in the background. > >>The more I look at this, the more I find to like. > >> > >> > > > >Thanks Frank! > > > >Yes, basically, I wait until someone is about to take a picture. In > >this case I set the camera at ISO 400, 0.5s f/8, (kind of guessed > >based on the distance between the subjects and the other > >photographer), and just pressed the shutter a beat before him. It is > >easy if the other camera has a red eye reducing preflash, otherwise > >just hope for the best, or ask them to count to three if you know them > >:-) > > > >Funny that you comment on this image now, I just came back from > >shooting, and I was hanging out near the big christmas tree in Union > >Square here in San Francisco, trying to steal other people's flashes. > > > >Here is the only somewhat successful frame, out of about 15: > > > >http://www.jbuhler.com/blog/archives/00000152.html > > > >A not as successful one, because I forgot to go back to ISO200 from ISO3200: > > > >http://img142.exs.cx/img142/4360/imgp13752pt.jpg > >[hosted as imageshack, as it is a throwaway pretty much] > > > > > >Cheers, > > > >j > > > > > > > > -- > I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. > During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings > and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during > peacetime. > --P.J. O'Rourke > > -- Juan Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com blog at http://www.jbuhler.com/blog
