Friday, January 7, 2011

Starry snow white, Lake Toya, Hokkaido, Japan

The hotel in Lake Toya set this starry light tunnel opposite to the hotel. At first, I used a tripod to take a longer exposure time to 1 to 2 seconds at F10, but it turned out it's too explosive lighting. Then further reduce it to F16, but the result isn't too good. Finally I noticed some tiny white leather is in the lighting. That means the tiny LED has too much light reflection. So:
1. I switched it to F6.5 at 1/6 second shutter speed. It came out as it was at the scene.
2. So I decided to detach the camera from the tripod. This one is at F4 at 1/25 second.
3. This one at F4 at 1/13 second.
4. This one at F4 at 1/25 second. (*without any post-processing).


5 comments:

pixmation said...

Pretty lights, these are tough lighting condition to photograph.

in the sea said...

If it's not the freezing chilly cold, I would have tried some more settings. BTW, those photos are all on 17mm (1.6 crop, i.e. 26-27mm).

Stella said...

Just spectacular.

pixmation said...

Would be more dramatic with that lens on a full frame. :)

in the sea said...

Absolutely agree with you Pixmation! I am so thankful for having these 2 L lens indeed, though both are without IS.