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Hello All
So I have not seen anyone talk about these variables when doing a Holly Grail shot
( Im referring to Stars all the way through to a Sunrise or Sunset all the way through to stars) NOT just sunset to city light--I'm talk the most extreme
High ISO -to Low ISO, 3 way Axis ( Pan/ Tilt / Slider ) and to use NDs , Manual Lens aperture adjustments
ISO ? I am usually at 1000 -1600 on my ISO for stars. Of course you don't really want to be that high on a sunrise/sunset. So do you adjust that on the fly along with shutter adjustments? If so then that adds to the frustration of touching the camera?
I feel like touching the camera is the BIGGEST NO NO !!! I hate to touch the camera!!
It's one thing if the camera is locked off on just a tripod, but if your moving the camera on a slider or a pan and tilt, then that's even trickier.
Then what If you want to or need to use ND for the daylight part.
What if you are using a full manual lens--You do have the option of stopping up or down ( again touching the camera) If so how far do you stop? If you stop down too far beyond 5.6-8 then you risk any sensor dirt showing up in the image ( that one nice thing about staying wide open--it works in your favor two fold ( wide open for star light, wide open shows not sensor dirt ) but if you stay wide open then you MUST have NDs --and again--You don't want ND's during the "start light" part !!
Someone needs to make a Matte Box that hat motorized filter trays to drop in the NDs --and be in sync with the camera ( but that just yet one more device in the chain -NOOOOO!!
There just seems to be way to many variables to pull this off with just LRTL--at lease in this extreme type of shooting.
Love to get some feed back or thoughts, suggestions.
Note: I need and want to be more of a voice on here and help out where I can, but if there is not a give and take and just views on the topics, Then that's not a great motivator --I'm just saying So please engage / indulge me friends
I will try and do the same
So I have not seen anyone talk about these variables when doing a Holly Grail shot
( Im referring to Stars all the way through to a Sunrise or Sunset all the way through to stars) NOT just sunset to city light--I'm talk the most extreme
High ISO -to Low ISO, 3 way Axis ( Pan/ Tilt / Slider ) and to use NDs , Manual Lens aperture adjustments
ISO ? I am usually at 1000 -1600 on my ISO for stars. Of course you don't really want to be that high on a sunrise/sunset. So do you adjust that on the fly along with shutter adjustments? If so then that adds to the frustration of touching the camera?
I feel like touching the camera is the BIGGEST NO NO !!! I hate to touch the camera!!
It's one thing if the camera is locked off on just a tripod, but if your moving the camera on a slider or a pan and tilt, then that's even trickier.
Then what If you want to or need to use ND for the daylight part.
What if you are using a full manual lens--You do have the option of stopping up or down ( again touching the camera) If so how far do you stop? If you stop down too far beyond 5.6-8 then you risk any sensor dirt showing up in the image ( that one nice thing about staying wide open--it works in your favor two fold ( wide open for star light, wide open shows not sensor dirt ) but if you stay wide open then you MUST have NDs --and again--You don't want ND's during the "start light" part !!
Someone needs to make a Matte Box that hat motorized filter trays to drop in the NDs --and be in sync with the camera ( but that just yet one more device in the chain -NOOOOO!!
There just seems to be way to many variables to pull this off with just LRTL--at lease in this extreme type of shooting.
Love to get some feed back or thoughts, suggestions.
Note: I need and want to be more of a voice on here and help out where I can, but if there is not a give and take and just views on the topics, Then that's not a great motivator --I'm just saying So please engage / indulge me friends
I will try and do the same