Changing Lanes

With a full moon shinning upon us, me and SJ made our way once again to Jadaf; our little escape in the big city. She went off to do her daylight exposures with the film camera while I tried my hand at some light painting again. After some trial and error that led to some amateurish results, I decided to try some daylight exposures of my own.

Digital cameras can't handle very long exposures so to compensate I decided to shoot at f2.8. Some more trial and error brought me to this Pier that I initially shot for a daylight exposure but then brought it down by 2 stops to get this. This in fact is a composite of two images, a technique called focus stacking where I've focused on the horizon in one shot while focusing on the pier in the second shot and they've been put together in photoshop with some layer gradient masking. This allows me to achieve a larger depth of field even though I was shooting at f2.8 giving me the same result that a 30sec shot would have given at a higher aperture but without the noise. Simple but effective.

Camera Model : Canon 7D
Shooting Date/Time : 11/21/2010 22:53:27 PM
Tv(Shutter Speed) : 6secs
Av(Aperture Value) : f2.8
Metering Mode : Pattern
ISO Speed : 200
Lens : EF 16-35mm f2.8 L
Focal Length : 35mm

After scaring off a few couples sitting in cars with our super powerful torchlights, me and SJ decided to have some fun. She was busy doing some day time exposures with her Canon film camera, I did some light painting shots with my 7D that unfortunately sucks at day time exposure due to high noise at any shutter speed over 30 seconds with digital cameras. So while she sat next to her camera, I decided to light her up and bits of the sand with my torchlight to imitate spotlights.

I really didn't know what to caption this picture so I asked on facebook if anyone had any ideas. Feroz came up with this title which I kinda like though SJ finds it kinda funny...

Camera Model : Canon 7D
Shooting Date/Time : 10/23/2010 23:00:04 PM
Tv(Shutter Speed) : 30secs
Av(Aperture Value) : f10
Metering Mode : Pattern
ISO Speed : 100
Lens : EF 16-35mm f2.8 L
Focal Length : 22mm

Tried light painting with SJ in the middle of the night...literally. It was 12am when we started shooting after being warned by a muncipality official from shooting at our initial location. Me being the control freak took over as we just had one tripod (Note to self: need to allow SJ take over the shoot next time). Even though it was loads of fun and sweat, we didn't end up with very cool shots. I suppose we needed one more person to help us out. Hopefully that'll happen next time.

Camera Model : Canon 7D
Shooting Date/Time : 08/26/2010 12:12:29 AM
Tv(Shutter Speed) : 30secs
Av(Aperture Value) : f5
Metering Mode : Pattern
ISO Speed : 100
Lens : EF-S 10-22mm
Focal Length : 10mm
Camera Model : Canon 7D
Shooting Date/Time : 08/26/2010 12:36:18 AM
Tv(Shutter Speed) : 30 secs
Av(Aperture Value) : f6.3
Metering Mode : Pattern
ISO Speed : 100
Lens : EF-S 10-22mm
Focal Length : 15mm