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Seiberling by Night

© John A. Lind

Seiberling by Night

Uploaded: September 27, 2001

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Seiberling Mansion and Howard County Museum, Kokomo, IN; Olympus OM-1n; 35mm f/2.8 Zuiko Shift; Portra 400VC. Night scenes can be much more brightly lit with snow, but will still often have muted colors. Balancing man-made lighting is sometimes not easy.

Comments

August 01, 2001

How do you shoot a photo like this? Is there a special lens or is it a matter of using a tripod and a long exposure? I would love comments on shooting a night scene. I love the photo by the way! #305

John A. Lind August 01, 2001

Kati,
Thanks. I got slightly frozen shooting this one. The basics of night photos like this are a tripod with cable release for a timed exposure. Doing winter night photography in weather like this requires care to avoid frostbite. The metal tripod, camera bodies and lenses can suck the heat out of hands in a matter of a couple minutes. Also have to watch camera batteries. The camera used for this one is completely mechanical with the exception of the meter inside the viewfinder. When batteries get extremely cold their voltage drops. Electronic shutter cameras can lock up if it drops too low to operate the electronics. The batteries recover when warmed back up. Color balancing can be a nightmare, as it was in this one, with manmade lighting and snow. The manmade lights are not the same as daylight. If printed as if they were from daylight film, the snow would be an ugly yellow color.

Unrelated to shooting at night, I used a perspective correction shift lens. It allows maintaining a natural perspective of the building. Shift lenses are specialized primarily for architectural work althought there are other uses for them.

Thanks,
-- John #492


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