Comments on: Digital Night Photography http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2007/12/28/digital-night-photography Glimpses From Bert & Jane Gildart's Travel Adventures Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:04:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Bert http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2007/12/28/digital-night-photography#comment-11889 Bert Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:00:17 +0000 http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2007/12/28/digital-night-photography/#comment-11889 Hi Aaron, You probably saw the photo on the Nikon Forum, but I also used the photo for my Airstream Life magazine story about Organ Pipe. Depth of field is a function not only of f-stops, but also the lens you are using. With wide angle lens, in other words, yours, set at 18mm, you can shoot wide open and be pretty much assured that everything from close up to infinity will be in focus. Not so with a 200mm lens. In my photo above I shot at f5.6, I think, and used a zoom lens but had it set at about 20mm, in other words a wide angle lens. As a result, both foreground and background were in focus. Hi Aaron, You probably saw the photo on the Nikon Forum, but I also used the photo for my Airstream Life magazine story about Organ Pipe. Depth of field is a function not only of f-stops, but also the lens you are using. With wide angle lens, in other words, yours, set at 18mm, you can shoot wide open and be pretty much assured that everything from close up to infinity will be in focus. Not so with a 200mm lens. In my photo above I shot at f5.6, I think, and used a zoom lens but had it set at about 20mm, in other words a wide angle lens. As a result, both foreground and background were in focus.

]]> By: Aaron Chervenak http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2007/12/28/digital-night-photography#comment-11858 Aaron Chervenak Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:30:57 +0000 http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2007/12/28/digital-night-photography/#comment-11858 Hello, I've seen this photo on other sites before and think its beautiful. my main question is regarding focus for long exposure night shots such as this. i have been very interested in night photography for some time now and am constantly experimenting but the same problem that keeps cropping up is how to achieve a sharp crisp focus throughout the foreground and background. i have a D200 as well with a nikkor 18-200 lens and the best luck ive had is with really small apertures in the range of f16 and f18, but i see photos like this using a much larger aperture and it baffles me. any insight you may offer would be so very appreciated. i have a night photography section on my flikr account to explain my problem. all the best and thank you for your time, aaron Hello,

I’ve seen this photo on other sites before and think its beautiful. my main question is regarding focus for long exposure night shots such as this. i have been very interested in night photography for some time now and am constantly experimenting but the same problem that keeps cropping up is how to achieve a sharp crisp focus throughout the foreground and background. i have a D200 as well with a nikkor 18-200 lens and the best luck ive had is with really small apertures in the range of f16 and f18, but i see photos like this using a much larger aperture and it baffles me. any insight you may offer would be so very appreciated.

i have a night photography section on my flikr account to explain my problem.

all the best and thank you for your time,

aaron

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