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Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 2
Threads: 1
Joined: Feb 2015
Hi,
I’m looking for a little help, or possibly some direction in shooting holy grail.
I have shot a number of Holy grail time lapses, but I’m currently having an issue where the my images appear to be too dark by the time the stars come out…
I use,
Camera – Canon 700D
Lens – Samyang 10mm 2.8 – Mechanical Focus and Aperture
I use manual mode, manual focus, I do set the white balance to auto, as I set this in post. I use a Hanhal remote interval meter and I also use CamRanger to change the shutter speed and ISO on the go.
I’m currently shooting in my back yard for testing, so there is light pollution.
I’m bulb ramping the camera’s exposure manually, I fixed my aperture to f/8, I started with an exposure of 1/250 and by the end of the night (duration of 2 hours) keeping the exposure at zero, and not moving more than 1 stop I finished on 5 second exposure and ISO 800.
When I import the files into LTTimeLapse 3.4.1 (at this stage I’m using the free copy, as I’m still learning), I find that all the night shoots images from the Time-lapse seem to drop to the bottom on the preview window in the top (the purple line).
Does the purple line mean the images are under exposed?
When compiling the images in lightroom, I find the stars too light and some of the image very noisy. When looking at the images, I feel I’m not shooting the night images correctly.
I have used qDSLDashboard, but find approx. half way through the shoot, that my exposure blows 3-4 steps to the right and appears to shoot a very over exposed image. Without using the qDSLDashboard, I also noticed while monitoring the exposure on my camera, it seems to take 2-3 different attempts on my camera to decide on the correct exposure.
My questions are
Should I set the White Balance to a fixed setting, or continue to use auto and resolve in Post?
Should I be monitoring Exposure Meter or should I be monitoring the histogram? And if so, what should I look for in the histogram?
Thanks
Lloyd
I’m looking for a little help, or possibly some direction in shooting holy grail.
I have shot a number of Holy grail time lapses, but I’m currently having an issue where the my images appear to be too dark by the time the stars come out…
I use,
Camera – Canon 700D
Lens – Samyang 10mm 2.8 – Mechanical Focus and Aperture
I use manual mode, manual focus, I do set the white balance to auto, as I set this in post. I use a Hanhal remote interval meter and I also use CamRanger to change the shutter speed and ISO on the go.
I’m currently shooting in my back yard for testing, so there is light pollution.
I’m bulb ramping the camera’s exposure manually, I fixed my aperture to f/8, I started with an exposure of 1/250 and by the end of the night (duration of 2 hours) keeping the exposure at zero, and not moving more than 1 stop I finished on 5 second exposure and ISO 800.
When I import the files into LTTimeLapse 3.4.1 (at this stage I’m using the free copy, as I’m still learning), I find that all the night shoots images from the Time-lapse seem to drop to the bottom on the preview window in the top (the purple line).
Does the purple line mean the images are under exposed?
When compiling the images in lightroom, I find the stars too light and some of the image very noisy. When looking at the images, I feel I’m not shooting the night images correctly.
I have used qDSLDashboard, but find approx. half way through the shoot, that my exposure blows 3-4 steps to the right and appears to shoot a very over exposed image. Without using the qDSLDashboard, I also noticed while monitoring the exposure on my camera, it seems to take 2-3 different attempts on my camera to decide on the correct exposure.
My questions are
Should I set the White Balance to a fixed setting, or continue to use auto and resolve in Post?
Should I be monitoring Exposure Meter or should I be monitoring the histogram? And if so, what should I look for in the histogram?
Thanks
Lloyd