One from last night

Mint_Sauce · 30 May 2006 at 23:32

I went off at about 11:30pm last night to get some shots of the motorwey near me. Unfortunately, there wern't many cars going past.

I ended up increasing my ISO to 1600 so the lights that did go past would be nice and bright but this obviously caused blotchyness. I now think maybe I should have taken a few shots from the same place then overlayed them in photoshop.

Oh well, it was cold and I wasn't thinking straight.

Anyway, this pic I tried doing that "getting big stuff to look minature" effect and I quite like it even if the pic is a little boring.

Mint_Sauce · 31 May 2006 at 09:10

Yeah, it's tilt shift - very easy to do in Photoshop. The sky was the blotchy bit but it's ok with tilt shift.

Mint_Sauce · 31 May 2006 at 10:00

Ahh yes, I didn't think of that! Think i'll try again with the black card and bulb mode. Then try again when it's winter rush hour.

With bulb mode is there anyway to do it so you press once to open the shutter then another press to close it? That way there wouldn't be as much camera shake from holding down the button. I was doing 30 second exposures.

Mint_Sauce · 31 May 2006 at 22:49

Thanks for the link, I guess I like the Tilt shift because these techniques are new to me (being new to photography).

The actual shot was done using the infinity thingy so it's all in focus, I just wanted to make the shot a bit more interesting so used the tilt shift effect.

Original Here

Reading your link now.

Also, the picture location here for anyone who's interested (Google Earth).