long night exposure of the creepy/cool house next door

nakedyak · Jan 22, 2006

Whew. long title. It wasn't that cold last night, so i drug (dragged?) my gear outside and set up in the dark. Since i'm basically just guessing with the exposure times and stuff, i had to experiment a while. When we are talking about exposure times ranging from 2-4 minutes to 25 minutes, you can't really experiment too much at 2:30am

So anyways, tried a 25 minute exposure at f8 and it was a little over exposed, but these minute and minute and a half exposures at f4 or f4.5 worked out pretty well i think

let me know what you think! They aren't the same picture by the way, just very similar.

P.S. Right after i took these, a huge white dog that i've never seen ran around the side of the house and barked really loudly at me. It scared the crap out of me, and i ran inside. wow

i dont think i like this one as much, but some people might like it more in color. this one was 163 seconds at f4.0, ISO 100 at 10mm

MyCameraEye · Jan 22, 2006

Sweet pictures and awesome work. I love long exp shots! Nice work!

Rus_T · Jan 22, 2006

Those are fantastic! In high school I turned myself into a night owl because of night photography. This makes me want to do it all again.

seven · Jan 22, 2006

Really cool pictures.

nakedyak · Jan 22, 2006

well thanks guys

LaFoto · Jan 22, 2006

That colour version has an additional element of creepiness to it, I think, for the colours are so "off" ... not meaning that in a negative way at all for this one here, quite to the contrary.

I do like the black and white one for a reason, it is so nicely clear and the sky is so special in that one.

There is the same pattern on the sky in the colour version - no: colour photo, since the two are not the same - but it is a lot less obvious and other things stand out more. Such as that creepy (to my mind) greenish yellow of the light that illuminated the scene (probably a lot less brightly for the eyes, right?).

Fate · Jan 22, 2006

Awsome pic man

I wouldnt like to go in that house after dark!

bantor · Jan 22, 2006

Great shots, I really like the first one, the rays of light coming over the house a very cool looking.

immski · Jan 22, 2006

These shots are so cool! I love them! How do you take shots w/ such long exposures? I know that sounds like a stupid question. When I take shots even at a super small aperature they would come out exposed correctly or slighty under exposed at 30 seconds. How do you manage this 25 minute stuff? I think I'll start a thread in the general Q&A for some more lengthy explanations.

Booshka · Jan 22, 2006

Looks good in colour or BW, excellent.

JonathanM · Jan 22, 2006

I like the B&W, without noticeing the stars in the colour it could be a weird sunset image, and that means it losing some spookiness.

The B&W with the light coming over the roof is excellent, looks like you spent a massive amount of money on back lighting it!!

HoboSyke · Jan 22, 2006

These are both cool!

Really excellent work dude!!

Keep it up!!

nakedyak · Jan 22, 2006

Thanks guys. Its actually clouds coming over the roof in the BW version, they were moving pretty fast that night. To get a 100 sec exposure, you need a remote shutter release or a cable release or a remote, but some way to trigger the shutter in "bulb" mode and keep it pressed down for a long time without holding your finger on the camera. Also, this scene was pretty dark, 30 seconds at f4 would mean i would have had to use ISO 400 at least.