Photography is all about light. Whether there is lots of light or very little light, this is what the film negative or digital sensor collects and interprets as an image. So if you have a tripod, it cam be really fun to experiment and see what you can come up with in situations when the light is scarce. One if the cool things about newer digital cameras is their ability to tolerate high iso’s enabling the artist to do even more in these situatioms. The first couple of pictures were shot at 3200 ISO approximately 30 minutes after sunset, They were shot with a 50mm lens at f/1.4.
The next two shots were bulb exposures of about 7 minutes each. You can see the movement in the stars. In the first exposure below, the ocean looks kind of eerie. Very cool effect…
in the exposure below, the lights from town on the horizon create a nice silhouette for the view platform. I like how you can see the different colors in the stars. It was getting really foggy so I had to bring my camera in, but if I could have kept the exposure going for a few hours, it would have made for some killer star trails. You can see how the stars are rotating around the North Star.
