Long Exposure phenomenon

[Pau1]

Does anyone really thing that the tilt-a-whirl sign is going to stay completely motionless when the machine is running? No, it is not. But moving that much?? Perhaps, depending on how much the guy setting it up had do drink. I wouldn't get on it. If you can take the same shot when the machine is not running, I bet you would not have that ghosting. That's all it is... movement.

 

[Kerbouchard]

Does anyone really thing that the tilt-a-whirl sign is going to stay completely motionless when the machine is running? No, it is not. But moving that much?? Perhaps, depending on how much the guy setting it up had do drink. I wouldn't get on it. If you can take the same shot when the machine is not running, I bet you would not have that ghosting. That's all it is... movement.

If that's movement, that had to have been the best ride at the carnival...

P.S. it's not movement, it was the filter.

 

[TheBiles]

Insurance and a lens hood are way better than a UV filter.


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[jake337]

All this effort lens manufactures put into making great glass, all this money people spend on good glass, yet people still throw uv filters in front of it. What a shame...

They could most likely design a UV filter that comes with none of the usually bad characteristics of one, but it would cost so damn much people would be buying cheap UV filters for their UV filter.

If it's not adding to the exposure(nd, cpl, etc) why bother.

You should have your lens hood on anyways.

 

[bazooka]

Does anyone really thing that the tilt-a-whirl sign is going to stay completely motionless when the machine is running? No, it is not. But moving that much?? Perhaps, depending on how much the guy setting it up had do drink. I wouldn't get on it. If you can take the same shot when the machine is not running, I bet you would not have that ghosting. That's all it is... movement.

That sucker must be rockin' back and forth 10 feet! :lmao:

 

[brush]

I'm kind of embarrassed to say why I have a filter on there, thank god I posted in the beginner forum & can get away with newbie mistakes that way. I lost my lens cap & found that a filter set was cheaper than a new cap, so I figured I'll just leave that UV one on the lens all the time & if it ever gets scratched it saved my lens. It also came with a polarizing filter I use from time to time when shooting things like cars or water but that wasn't on for this shot. I wish I could go back to that carnival & try the same shot again with no filter & compare apples to apples.

I actually bumped up the exposure in CR when I tweaked the levels, wanted to bring out as much of the glinting of each of those little bulbs on the top rail as I could. As shot originally it was a little dark in my opinion. This shot actually gets cooler the more you up the exposure, if I bump it all the way up to 4.00 it creates this intensity I really dig. Another thing I might try if I'm back at the carnival any time soon is shooting it to overexpose on purpose. For this shot, I used a Canon 60D with the kit 18-135mm at 18mm with F22, 15 sec exposure & ISO 200. The original RAW still clips a little on the brightest lights but not like this edited version. I could do it shorter but then there'd be less of a kaleidoscope effect from the cars spinning & that would take away all the fun.

The filter makes total sense now that you guys mention it, just like when you look at a pencil in a glass of water & it refracts differently when you look through the water than just the glass...an extra layer of plastic before it hits the lens is bound to cause the same thing, and exposing for 15 seconds on it would make it burn into the image enough to be noticeable. Movement of the ride accounts for why the hotspot itself isn't a crisp focus easily read sign but if this thing were rockin' far enough for each of those ghostings to be where the sign ACTUALLY was in space, I needed to be standing further away from the ride because it would've been about to fall over! Like bazooka said, there's at least 10 feet between the "closest" and "furthest" ghost there.

 

[brush]

Glad you found your problem, though I don't see it as that in this photo. I pressonally love the effect it gave. Nice shot.

Thanks!

 

[KmH]

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