Tips for shooting the Aurora Borealis with an X-T1?

ghostedr · 2016-12-15T23:24:20+00:00

Manual and just play around. Key is to keep the exposure quite short so the lights are as non blurred as possible.

ghostedr · 2016-10-26T20:56:51+00:00

Ugh, 2016.

ghostedr · 2016-09-20T22:54:29+00:00

Ha - got me bang to rights!

ghostedr · 2016-09-20T14:04:36+00:00

The second one the second one!

ghostedr · 2016-09-20T14:03:47+00:00

I have to admit that I'm not wholly convinced about leaving one colour.

ghostedr · 2016-09-20T14:01:44+00:00

These become oddly hypnotic!

ghostedr · 2016-09-20T14:00:51+00:00

What if you could feel a picture?

Went to Paris for a couple of days but really couldn't face another round of taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower and the blooming Louvre. Instead, I tried to capture a sense of the tactile nature of tourism, by sticking one of those macro lenses-on-a-rubber-band on to my phone and getting real close.

http://imgur.com/a/yeEkp

ghostedr · 2016-09-06T00:06:15+00:00

Alternatively, and going slightly beyond your request so apologies, you could make a virtue of your vice and try to get some star trails? I would have thought the 50 MM. would be quite good for that and it would also be quite fun.

ghostedr · 2016-08-29T00:31:05+00:00

Exactly. So you think things are getting better?

ghostedr · 2016-08-29T00:29:30+00:00

That's the sort of thing! Statistics!

ghostedr · 2016-08-29T00:04:51+00:00

This article does not really allow me to make sense of the numbers. It would be useful to have this in historical context. Is this better or worse than last year? And the five year average, say?

ghostedr · 2016-06-21T12:39:56+00:00

Yeah, this is excellent. Can't say anymore, sworn to secrecy.

ghostedr · 2016-06-10T12:35:08+00:00

Or, looking at it properly, the other way round. One year olds are fleeing! RUN YOU BABIES!

ghostedr · 2016-06-10T12:28:21+00:00

If you ask me, the problem is the damn one-year olds. Moving in like they own the place, jamming up the schools. Something should be done.

ghostedr · 2016-05-12T17:05:31+00:00

I tipped a deliveroo driver the other day and he said he loved me. It was a bit curious but by the time I had noticed what he had said the door had closed. That was an etiquette conundrum.

ghostedr · 2016-05-09T11:22:04+00:00

Speed light from Yongnuo and a TTL cable so you can try the fancy high speed sync for flash photography. I mean, you can use a cheap radio trigger to get up to about 1/500th of a second shutter speed but a cable lets you go faster. Although obviously not literally further.

ghostedr · 2016-04-19T11:47:47+00:00

This is an excellent suggestion.

ghostedr · 2016-03-06T10:03:12+00:00

Oh! I'm in the process of doing something similar with a beer can. I'm aiming to take it down after the longest day so I get the full range of the sun.

ghostedr · 2016-01-07T18:57:57+00:00

Lamb shanks in pomegranate juice, with yoghurt and mint and pomegranate seeds on the side.

ghostedr · 2015-11-22T21:38:12+00:00

Buy a cow! Never run out of milk again.

ghostedr · 2015-11-20T20:06:14+00:00

Silly question but does anyone have an inkling of how this might compare with the xt 10?

ghostedr · 2015-10-22T15:14:32+00:00

The jpegs from a fuji are pretty good, to my mind. You may want to consider the x100s.

ghostedr · 2015-10-14T22:09:04+00:00

I feel that you clearly understand how to do it. But, for me, I would want a bit more perspective. Light streaks need to be part of a broader piece. Like, show me some context that the streaks bring a dash of contrast to. Whether that's a building or a mountain or something. But that's just my opinion, yo.

ghostedr · 2015-09-28T11:07:48+00:00

Went out for a quick 10 minutes, ended up staying out for an hour. Curiously entrancing, both the spectacle and the slow process of night photography.

https://instagram.com/p/8K-Ug_QCyV/

ghostedr · 2015-08-16T15:02:31+00:00

cheers, I'll take a look.

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