Shuttle Launch Tips..

[TelekinesisKeith]

I'm going to a launching tonight and was looking for some tips to getting amazing pictures.

 

[hankejp]

I don't have any tips, but that should be pretty cool. I can't wait to see them.

 

[Josh66]

TRIPOD!!

I've never been to a shuttle launch before, so I don't have any direct experience with it.

It's going to be at night? To me, a long exposure (tripod, of course) with a wide enough lens to capture it all (in portrait orientation) would be pretty cool.
I would probably do that, and with another body with a longer lens try to get some closer, more detailed shots. That might be pretty hard to do if it's going to be dark though.

 

[Josh66]

How close will you be?

The long exposure thing might not work as well if you're really close.

edit
If you're going to be close, some shots of when the engines fire up would be pretty cool too.

Make sure you post the results!

 

[TelekinesisKeith]

I wont be right up close, but it should mostly be visible, they are pretty huge

 

[TelekinesisKeith]

I'll post all I get tomorrow.

 

[Josh66]

I searched "shuttle launch" in google images. Browse through that for ideas.

This one is what I had in mind with the long exposure. (Although I would have shot it in portrait orientation, but then again - I shoot most things in portrait orientation.)

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I had imagined it going more or less straight up. I don't think portrait would have worked for that one.