Midnight sun
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Whoah! Two entries in 4 days, something's up!
This shot is slightly older than the Croke Park image I put up 4 days ago, but only by a few weeks. I was supposed to be going to Norway during August for two weeks holiday - climbing, walking, sailing and photography. However, life has a way of throwing curve balls every now and again, and so due to circumstances at home, I ended up not going. Instead, I went to France for a week to see my mother's new apartment there. She need some pictures doing (she plans to rent the place out) and I had two weeks booked off for a holiday I was now not going on. It seemed a perfect fit!
So I drove down there. Now, the apartment is in the South. The very South. Cap d'Agde to be precise! It took a long time to get there, but I'd decided the drive would be part of the fun anyway. Yeah, big mistake!
Anyway, this is the marina behind my mother's apartment. Although you can't see her place specifically, it's in the block to the very left of the image. So why is it called midnight sun? Well, since I was supposed to be going to Norway, and the moon is lighting up the whole scene, it just seemed apt!
For those interested in trying this sort of image, two things are essential - a solid tripod and a cable release. In this case, a Gitzo G2227 and a TC-80N3 timer control. Exposure was 60seconds at f14 ISO 400.
Now, when you shoot long exposures, you will get image noise. It's a fact of life. The better the camera, the better the noise control will be. In this shot, there is some noise, but it's not intrusive and by processing the image in DPP, what little noise there was has been all but removed. The only 'noise' you'll be left with is hot or dead pixels, which show up with long exposures. These though, are easy to clone out afterwards.
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