WVCaver2011 wrote:Yea, besides using my little kodak with slaves, I have no real photography background. However, I did take a pretty nice pic this weekend with an 8 second shutter speed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59884159@N ... hotostream
It wasnt too bad but it took a little time to get things lined up appropriately. I want a longer shutter speed so I can take light painting to the next level. Are there any cheap bulb mode cameras?
Cool!
FWIW I dont use that long shutter for lightpainting. Ive never used more than about 8 seconds even though I have the ability to now. Really only need longer if you are lightpainting huge rooms, and even then in my experience so far if you need to light up something big its easier to send someone around with a flash gun tell them where to point it, count 1-2-3 on 2 you press shutter on 3 they fire so only need a 1.5 or 2 sec exposure to make sure you dont miss the flash. Then I stitch the images together after. I think lots people use slave flashes for this sort of thing but I dont have any or money to buy any with so I make do haha.
Youd be surprised how much rotation you get at night in the stars too with not that long of exposure. I think its something like 1deg per minute so for example with my dslr bulb setting i took this shot, exif data tells me it was 314 seconds, remember the farther from the north star that you point it the more rotation streaks youll get:
Fiborn at Night 5 by Sunguramy, on Flickr