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smallmovesal
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i mean manual photography... i'm trying to take a series of long exposure indoor shots... and i have an idea of how long to expose and what f stops to use to bracket but i'd like to hear thoughts by anyone else...
does anyone here know photography well?
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smallmovesal
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lol...
Weapon X said:I think you should expose yourself until we all get an eyeful.
Then you can do some manual work for us.
my post was gonna be along these lines....
sorry
i would imagine you'd have to light it really well. sorry if thats a blindingly obvious statement btw, i know nada about photography aside from...well...ya know
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MommaKin
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[email protected] a sort of ironic thread you started here
smallmovesal
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perhaps i should have said professional... 
Yeah smalls im in a manual photo class now, not sure what you need to know exactly, but here is an idea of what you can do..
Im assuming that you have the correct film already, > ASA100 or lower for indoors in low light... Shutter has to be over 30 if the camera is not on a tripod (handheld), or else the pic will be blurry, optimal shutter is inbetween 60-1000 for hand held, or else everything must be completely still, longer shutter speed = more depth of field.
But your camera should have a indicator that shows you the status of your pic when the trigger is held about half way down, mine has 3 lights when looking through the lens (+, 0, -) which will tell if light is optimal or not. You can adjust shutter from there in the paramaters listed above to get in the general area where the indicator will go green, then you fine tune with the aperture ring on the lens.
Zoom & focus are self explainitory.
Tell me if that helped..
Im assuming that you have the correct film already, > ASA100 or lower for indoors in low light... Shutter has to be over 30 if the camera is not on a tripod (handheld), or else the pic will be blurry, optimal shutter is inbetween 60-1000 for hand held, or else everything must be completely still, longer shutter speed = more depth of field.
But your camera should have a indicator that shows you the status of your pic when the trigger is held about half way down, mine has 3 lights when looking through the lens (+, 0, -) which will tell if light is optimal or not. You can adjust shutter from there in the paramaters listed above to get in the general area where the indicator will go green, then you fine tune with the aperture ring on the lens.
Zoom & focus are self explainitory.
Tell me if that helped..
Steroid_Virgin
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It really depends.. i would expirement because it really depends on how much light there is, what speed film you are using.. Do you do your own developing? Prints? I'd like to help you but I need some more info..
hardbdygrl
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hahahha smalls honey u set urself up for that one!!!!!!!!!!!!!
smallmovesal
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ok i'm using asa 400 tmax colour film... shooting at "B" which i have held down on the camera for varying times... that i can determine... the light meter doesn't work for B... so i'm kinda guessing and bracketing. i started at f2... i suspect that will be overexposed though...
smallmovesal
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well i'm trying to do long exposure where i'm blurry in it.. i have it on a tripod...
i haven't done manual photography in a couple of years so... i'm a little rusty...
i'm trying to read what the book is telling me but it's not making sense.
"for exposures of longer than 100 sec open up aperture 1.5 stops more"
so what aperture am i starting at though? do i set it at a proper setting for the light for however long then move it to b and change the aperture??
i haven't done manual photography in a couple of years so... i'm a little rusty...
i'm trying to read what the book is telling me but it's not making sense.
"for exposures of longer than 100 sec open up aperture 1.5 stops more"
so what aperture am i starting at though? do i set it at a proper setting for the light for however long then move it to b and change the aperture??
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DcupSheepNipples
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Digital, Digital, Digital Smallmovesal. Your going to have to get used to digital for your films. So you might as well use a digital camera. How about Smallmovesal does Jolene Blalock for my next production?
smallmovesal
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anabolik... suggestions?
So your trying to take a blurry pic of yourself??
1) how are you going to hold down the manual release if your the subject in the pic? someone is taking it for you?
2) no way you need a 100 second shutter speed unless your trying to capture a huge depth of field like a cityscape or landscape, even for a aperture of 1 second people need a subject in complete stillness.
Unless this pic requires a shutter that long for an assigment or something, setup the shutter to a optimal range, 60-1000, whatever gets the light green, fine tune lighting with the aperture, set up the focus/zoom to your location, hit the timer, run to strike a pose and say cheese.
The aperture doesn't matter that much, its just there to try and achieve proper lighting conditions with the shutter you seleceted.
Thats not a bad idea, quite good, if you really need such a low shutter speed, 1second should be enough to be a little blurry, if you can move a little during the shot...with such a low depth of field though (i assume its indoors) highering the aperture is not really neccesary.
1) how are you going to hold down the manual release if your the subject in the pic? someone is taking it for you?
2) no way you need a 100 second shutter speed unless your trying to capture a huge depth of field like a cityscape or landscape, even for a aperture of 1 second people need a subject in complete stillness.
Unless this pic requires a shutter that long for an assigment or something, setup the shutter to a optimal range, 60-1000, whatever gets the light green, fine tune lighting with the aperture, set up the focus/zoom to your location, hit the timer, run to strike a pose and say cheese.
The aperture doesn't matter that much, its just there to try and achieve proper lighting conditions with the shutter you seleceted.
Thats not a bad idea, quite good, if you really need such a low shutter speed, 1second should be enough to be a little blurry, if you can move a little during the shot...with such a low depth of field though (i assume its indoors) highering the aperture is not really neccesary.
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