Standing on the Ross Island Bridge, camera on tripod, trying to capture tasty views of Portland as the temperature dipped below 10°C and my fingies started getting cold.
I think I delivered. Even while jerks honked at me.
Thanks for seeing my work!
Standing on the Ross Island Bridge, camera on tripod, trying to capture tasty views of Portland as the temperature dipped below 10°C and my fingies started getting cold.
I think I delivered. Even while jerks honked at me.
Thanks for seeing my work!
Come on, bro you gotta tell us the camera model and lens make as well, don’t leave us hanging on your settings for this beauty of a night shot!
Don’t laugh.
Canon EOS Rebel T7, 800 ISO, f/9, 30” shutter, triggered via the Canon Connect app cause I don’t actually have a decent shutter remote yet.
Here’s another dumb strategy that I used to use back in the day when I was A) skint, and B) using a consumer grade camera that didn’t have all the zooty bells and whistles like remote shutter compatibility.
For long-ish shots where you don’t want the camera to vibrate, you can use the self timer as if you were going to take a group photo. Just, minus the group. Set it to whatever its shortest interval is (as I recall my crusty old Powershot A70 could go down as low as two seconds) and that ought to be plenty enough time for your fingers to be off the camera body and any vibrations in the tripod, etc. to settle down.
There is an extra special cubicle in hell reserved specifically for whoever is responsible for the Canon Connect app. So these days I use this remote release and it ought to work with your camera body as well. Not, notably, any of the wireless ones. The plug-in one works on time 100% of the time and isn’t yet another battery to have to fiddle with, never experiences mystery interference or connection issues, and most importantly is only $9. Me personally, I never need to be far enough away from my camera that the length of the cable ever becomes a concern. It’s around three feet long.
Oho, that’s pretty good! I wonder if I can get out to Pro Photo Supply today and get something.
Dude, I would never laugh at a fellow photographer. Usually I laugh at myself. I used to own a Canon Rebel T5 camera from like 2016. I used it for 4 years straight and it took some of my all time favorite night shots with it. If you know what you’re doing or know what you want, lots of cameras are “good enough”. I moved over to Fujifilm xt4 which I love, but I think for my night shots a full frame Sony is prob my next move if I can crawl outta this credit debt I got myself into of course. But anywho, just keep shooting dude, no shame in doing something you enjoy and if anyone ever actually laughs at you, just remember those people don’t matter and you got this. Thanks for the reply btw
Thanks! It’s a real budget situation, being a disabled woman and holding up a small day job from home, selling prints and canvases on the side locally, and hobbling out in the world to take shots, and I’m in an intro photography class, cause despite doing this for two decades, I’m tired of making outsider art, and I wanna make the good stuff. Eventually I’ll get a few grand together and get myself all properly kitted out!
It’s not always about the gear that makes a good photographer. It’s about applying the basics, and excelling at them while also using your own eyes, heart and mind to think what, when, and where a good shot might be . A lot of cool shots are just about timing and being in the right place.
Some of my best shots were spontaneous days I didn’t have planned. I’m not disabled, but I am in chronic pain, which zaps energy I have sometimes where I’d like to go out but end up unable to. I just mean to say I’m glad you did go out for this shot and I hope you keep that passion going. Good luck in your photography class, those are usually very fun classes!