Night shot

[rswinnerton]

Here's a shot I took over the weekend at Cove, PA at about 11pm at night. Enjoy, Russ

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1204331

[rswinnerton]

And here's some more of my night shots....
Russ
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiveThumbs.aspx?id=33305

[asciibaron]

where's the train?

 

-Steve

[tom mann]

Love 'em.

One of my favorite night photos is one that I took of Rondout last year:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tmann1/Rondout/photo#5090168347540870818

[Chris333]

I tried once:
http://chris333.fileave.com/wciatnight.jpg
 :-\

[3rdrail]

Night photography ain't a new thing. I took these over 50 years ago.

[wm3798]

This is as close as I ever got... it was a staged shot set up by Dwight Jones at the 1991 or 2 WMRHS convention in Union Bridge...  I had no idea what I was doing, used a Sears (Pentax) body with a semi-automatic setting.  I think I did something stupid like hold my thumb over the light meter so I'd get a longer exposure...

I had to touch up the scan you see here... it got plaster spattered on it during a night of feverish scenery work...

(yes it WAS plaster... get your mind out of the gutter...)

Great shots, Russ...  Really captures the motion in a dramatic fashion.

Lee

[Ian MacMillan]

I haven't shot a moving night shot in 9 years.

However I love to shoot stills in B&W..... and oddly I find myself shooting alot of B&W even in the daytime now.

[GonzoCRFan]

Guess I'll jump in on the fun...last Saturday night at CP-Tara:


Westbound stacks at the Hershey signals:


Westbound passing the Hershey plant:

[tom mann]

I tried once:
http://chris333.fileave.com/wciatnight.jpg
 :-\

Next time, set the ISO to 50 to reduce all that noise.  You may also have to fool with the exposure to get a good balance.

Night shots work best at twilight, when there is a little bit of light left in the sky to act as a giant fill light.

[pfs]

Nice stuff gentlemen.

Here are some from tonight, I just used the remote and over exposed. I didnt push the iso, but I have been meaning to try that.






Sorry no choo choos tonight.

[GonzoCRFan]

I didnt push the iso, but I have been meaning to try that.

I would advise against that when doing night shots, as the noise is going to be more apparent in a night shot than anything taken in daylight. You said you have the remote, so I'd just set the ISO nice and low and do a "bulb" exposure for as long as you have to. Your light meter won't work with the bulb exposure, so be sure to do some test shots to see what exposure time will work best before the train shows up.

[pfs]

I didnt push the iso, but I have been meaning to try that.

I would advise against that when doing night shots, as the noise is going to be more apparent in a night shot than anything taken in daylight. You said you have the remote, so I'd just set the ISO nice and low and do a "bulb" exposure for as long as you have to. Your light meter won't work with the bulb exposure, so be sure to do some test shots to see what exposure time will work best before the train shows up.

Thanks. Good advise.
Been running the ISO at 100 (default for my nikon) and the few times I have been out have tinkered with the exposure time.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Since you're all posting your night work, here's my favorite one I've taken:

[pfs]

Caught a short container run tonight. Had to run to get into position and then barely had a moment to set up.




Stuck around for the FOUR HOUR late Amtrak from Chicago.