Roll two

I’ve finally gotten in to scanning the second roll from my backpacking trip. A couple of the lessons I’ve learned were about night photography. Bracket is the name of the game. Also reciprocity is not your friend at night as what might be a 40s exposure at ISO400 with a digital camera can be more like a 150s exposure with film because of reciprocity failure. Of course if you just want to do star trails reciprocity failure is actually your friend as it allows you to do really long exposures without much in the way of sky brightening.

The first few pictures were from shortly after twilight. The first two were around 40 second exposures the third picture of the star trails was around a 7 minute exposure. Its a bit of a combination of needing to bracket more and a bit of scanner trail and error to get clean scans. There was a three quarter moon which both helped and hindered as it wasn’t quite as much light as a full moon to do moon lit landscape pictures and it was to much light to do a really long star trail picture picking out all of the dim stars. I need to do more in both respects. The Virginia blue bells were from the morning we set off back to the car. The final picture is the canal cutting through the moutains about half a mile from the Paw Paw tunnel. That pretty much brings us back to the car and the drive home. The final day was fairly uneventful other then Field finding his ring in the river after eluding us for nearly 3 hours the night and day before.

 

Sigma 24mm f/2.8

 

Sigma 24mm f/2.8

Zuiko 50mm f/1.4

 Sigma 24mm f/2.8

 

Tamron 28mm f/2.5