Would you belive this....

[Icicle]

Was taken at midnight.
I hope so Full moon light.

This is my new pick up 91 ford ranger xlt 4x4
location willow grove beach, WA.
Sorry for being slightly out of focus

 

[chrisburke]

well.. its very grainy, and theres lots of lens flare

 

[Bryant]

Too much noise

 

[LaFoto]

At 1728px wide, the photo is too large for web presentation, we always suggest (actually put it into our Forum Guidelines, to be found under FAQ) that you present photos no larger than 800px wide (horizontal frame).

This is fun, given the fact that it must have been a black sky around you.

 

[Icicle]

Sorry about the size issue. I thought this was the one I resized, Feel free to resize.

Can you guys explain the Grainy bit.

 

[maulrat]

yes, I believe it

 

[SrBiscuit]

you need a tripod

 

[Icicle]

you need a tripod

I have two tripods, one is for my flash, and the other I was using.

 

[SrBiscuit]

eeeeek....
does it move on its own?

how long was the exposure?

 

[Rachelsne]

The vest way to take these kinda pics would be to lower your ISO, that would help reduce the noise as yours was set at 1600 which I think is the highest you rebel can go?

To help reduce the bluryness ensure that your tripod is not moving in the wind, also use your self time to stop your camera moving when you press the buttton or a remote cable release

It is cool what long exposures do at night-I agree!!

 

[LaFoto]

I cannot resize your too large photo for you, other than "stealing it" to resize it on my computer and then store it in one of the accounts of the picture hosts that I use. Seems like you'll have to resize it yourself.

The noise derives from the high ISO you chose (ISO 1600), even though at a wide open lens (f4) at the lowest possible ISO (100) a 20-second-exposure would not have given you a photo this bright, of course. If you wanted to produce a photo that suggests almost daylight but stars in the sky then choosing the high ISO was the way to go (or a bulb exposure of I-don't-know-how-long ... but loooooooooooooooooong!) - only do you then have to live with the noise. Or put the photo through NeatImage (for example) ... but you will then lose even more sharpness, I'm afraid. For something did move the tripod, some wind, something...

 

[ANDS!]

For what you were trying to do, kudos mate. I dig it. Noise is going to be a factor period when shooting at that ISO speed, but thats not the point here. Keep on experimenting.

 

[Icicle]

Thank you all.
It would of help out a lot if it was in better focus.
The next Full moon I will try to retake using different ISO setting to see what works the best.

And the remote I used was a wireless one.
I will have to invest in a better tripod I guess.
cheap is fine for some things, I can see my own errors now. but to keep up the top dogs, I need more skills, and a better eye for details.

 

[Icicle]

Update:Are these any better.

Sorry about the excess flash, went to turn it off and hit the test button

 

[ANDS!]

Lol - I laughed at the second one.

Heres the question everyone is going to ask - you have a flash, but you're doing long exposures at night? And there was no way that huge source of light was going to look "good" open for that long.

And the tripod is fine that you have. Are you focusing manually? Plus, you moved in the shot.

Here's my question, what. . .are you trying to achieve with these photos. What was your artistic goal here?

And what camera are you using?