2009-07-04

Branch and Reflections, revisited

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I was on a late walk with Toni this evening at the Huckinger See again. I had the camera with me and I was sweating like a horse because it was so damp in the forest after all the rain. The following scene might look familiar to regular visitors of my blog:


Branch and Reflections, revisited (FinePix S5Pro, 10s @ ISO 800; f/4, 50 mm DX)

This photo was made at 20:30 (8:30pm for you US folks). It was so dark in the forest (go figure: 10 seconds at ISO800...), the autofocus would fail quite miserable even with my 50mm/f1.8 lens (I don't know whats the operating aperture of the AF in the S5pro/D200 but I don't think its something extraordinary).

Something new to add to my photo backpack: a torch! It would sure have helped to have a small pocket LED torch to illuminate the focus point and use the AF that way - or at least to be able to read the distance markings on the lens! :-)

The white balance for these photos is another issue: I left the camera on automatic white balance which would result in a really strong magenta cast over all of the background - but the greens are just excellent! I adjusted the tint of the WB for less magenta, and thats what you're seeing now (LR's auto white balance does something similar). Very weird.

5 comments:

  1. The other version of the same scene is my computer wallpaper. ;-) I could not tell that it's taken at that late hour if you did not tell or show the data. My old phone Sony Ericsson W800 featured flash light that was very handy when I take pictures at night. iPhone does not have that feature, huh.
    YOUR green colors still look very nice with this early night picture. Pretty cool!
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  2. Using the iPhone, hmmm... there's an application called "Flashlight" which turns the screen to the brightest bright, but I don't think it will be enough to help the AF work (for the above photo, the focus point was on the branch, which was some 3 or 4 meters away...).
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  3. Oh yeah the AF in the dark is tough! ^_^
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  4. I didn't realise how the picture was taken. Did the actual forest look as on the picture or it was too dark to see any of these?
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  5. You can do the math... 10s @ ISO800 means 80 seconds at ISO100... you can imagine how much light there was. :-) I could barely see the leaves of the tree.
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