Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Light and Time - Motorway Light Trails - first tests

For this short film I went up the motorway bridge over the m62 in Outlane.  After taking a series of photographs on the bridge, I then moved down to the motorway.  Here I rested my camera on the crash barrier to take accurate photographs.  This was very risky, but it allowed me to get up and close to vehicles driving at speed and I am more than happy with the result!

For the first light trails shown I set a high F Stop number ( F 20) to allow low light through and set the ISO to around 200, purely to increase shutter speed.  I also had to manually correct the white balance as the photographs were yellow from the street light. 

After I took all the photographs I wanted on the bridge, I went down to the motorway.  Here, I set a higher ISO of around 800 rather than 1600, as I didn't want there to be too much noise.  The F Stop was set to around F 10/F 15.

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