Note that before I started the frame burst, I quit Live View mode. This way, the camera was going to take 13 sec long frames just one after each other, with just a fraction of a second of pause between them. I set the drive mode to continuous, and I locked the exposure button of my remote controller. Until now, the usual settings I use for night city shots…
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A 13 sec exposure time gave the best results. Then I adjusted the shutter speed accordingly. With cameras having a smaller sensor (like 4/3 bodies), this number is even lower, around f/11.
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Note: on full-frame cameras with approx 20 megapixel pixel count going above f/16 causes diffraction which softens the image (eg. My goal was to have as long shutter speed as possible, so f/16 and ISO100 was set.
#Time lapse photos in photoshop 5.1 manual#
The camera was in Manual (M) exposure mode.įile format was RAW. I f ocused manually by magnifying 10x into the Live View mode, so I could be really accurate I switched the lens into Manual focus (MF). I put my Canon 6D on a tripod, The lens was a really old one, a 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM.Īs always when shooting night pics, I switch into Live View mode, and composed with the aid of the built-in level. There would be the same length of trails, but a lot fainter. ‘ But why haven’t you used an ND filter and just did one exposure? Then you’d have the same long lighttrails!‘ – you may say.īecause an ND filter would have weakened the lighttrails. So this is not one very long exposure, otherwise the Chain Bridge would have burnt out completely (I was already at f/16 and ISO100) There were 5 frames, but here only 3 is shown As you can see, only the lighttrails are stacked here, the exposure of the picture is unchanged. The secret: I took five 13 second long exposures consecutively and then merged the lighttrails in Photoshop. I’m going to show you the whole workflow that went into this one: This is a picture I took of Chain Bridge, with rich lighttrails.
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