I was playing around with some night scene photography tonight. I shot both under blue lights, an idea I got form the Dream, Plan, Build DVD, at f/29 with a 1600 ISO speed. Here’s the results:
This one would have come out great had it not been for the street light being so bright.
What do you guys think?
Very well done! your layout looks awesome, are you running code 55 track?
Thank you! And no, that’s the old Code 80 stuff, painted Floquil “Rail Brown.”
Well, it looks realistic and I like it. maybe someday I’ll finally have myself a nice N scale layout.
Nice work![Y]
Yes, the Night Scene helps cover a multitude of things that stick out under the sun. The effect works just as well in larger scales.
You still have to adjust for the lighting, even after dark. Sometimes those bright overhead lights work with you and sometimes against you. With more practice, you’ll be in a better position to judge as you take 'em. The problem with night pics is that they’re really hard to judge on the tiny built-in camera screens, so it’s often not until you download them you can really see how they come out.
If you are doing manual settings, then try to bracket shots you suspect will be a problem by going faster and slower on the exposure than what you take the first shot with.
…Looks good…
Reminds me of a moon light night.
I think that those photos look pretty darn good. I cannot decide if I like the bluish cast or not, but it is growing on me as I take repeated looks at the photos.
Mike is right about the difficulty of judging the quality of those tiny built-in camera screens, so it’s often not until you download them you can really see how they come out.
Rich
Step out side around 3 AM on a clear moon lite winter night and there seems to be a bluish cast…I can’t explain what it is but,have seen it…
I agree, that is why it is growing on me as I take repeated looks at the photos.
Rich
[#offtopic]
I am surprised,at You guys,you never heard,‘‘Blue Moon’’,by the Marcels,1961 and about,8 other Artists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7giOrKYIwpq
Cheers,
Frank
Unlike film or photo sensors, the retina in your eye contains two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones. The rods are more numerous, some 120 million, and are more sensitive than the cones. However, they are not sensitive to color. Therefore to simulate night vision you need a black and white photograph with a SLIGHT blue cast, or a color photograph that has been mostly, but not completely, desaturated (color removed) with a photo manipulation program like Photoshop.
Too bad that the video is “unavailable”.
I have always like night shots. Hides some evils not yet addressed to my satifaction in daylight.
Her is the Durango roundhouse at night. The incandescents give a nice warm tone in the roundhouse and a distant, ( 8 feet away), single ultra bright white LED gives a moon light cast outside the roundhouse.
Richard
Yeah!! That is too bad about the Video,I did not find that out until I posted it, it was only 21/2 min. long…I could tell you how to get it, but it will mean you will have to go to a,don’t want to say site…
Cheers,[D]
Frank
Richard,
That is a real nice,night shot,that you took.
Cheers, [D]
Frank