I was wondering if it was possible to take photographs of Streaking Car Headlights (Like these: //www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=95182&highlight=car%20headlights ) with a standard Digital camera. Please bear in mind I am a complete novice with very little experience with photography and photography terminology.
I have a Sony Cybershot DSC-T100 8.1 Megapixel camera and would very much like to improve my general photo taking skils?
Are there any tutorials in either of these subjects?
Unfortunately, unless you can find somewhere where the cars are realllly speeding, 1/4 sec (the slowest that your camera can do) won't be long enough to catch much of a streak :( I just did the math, and at 60mph a car will travel 22 feet in 1/4 second.
Is this what you mean? This shot took 15 seconds to let the car go all the way through the frame. So yes you can do shots like these if your camera has a slow enough shutter...
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Unfortunately, unless you can find somewhere where the cars are realllly speeding, 1/4 sec (the slowest that your camera can do) won't be long enough to catch much of a streak :( I just did the math, and at 60mph a car will travel 22 feet in 1/4 second.
That's why you shoot ISO 100, f/16, with a 3 stop ND filter. Shoot on manual for 10-30 seconds. The lights are going to be over exposed anyways, so go manual and go long. ;)
the specs at dpreview say 1 sec, buy that still isn't really any time to work with.
Weird, I couldn't find it on the list at dpreview (the first place to look, of course) so I used digitaltrends.com's review. Hmm, now I gotta check again, just cuz I don't like unsolved mysteries!
And Eug.... always bragging about long.... :P
eta; Okay, I'm in the Twilight Zone. First time I searched, dpreview didn't show up on the list, went to the site, searched the list of Sony cameras, didn't find this one. Pasted exactly the same thing for a new search, now dpreviews shows up!
But at least the other part of the mystery is solved; under specs, digitaltrends didn't list the p mode allowing 1 second. Still, would only give 88 feet of travel at 60mph...
First time I searched, dpreview didn't show up on the list, went to the site, searched the list of Sony cameras, didn't find this one. Pasted exactly the same thing for a new search, now dpreviews shows up!
But at least the other part of the mystery is solved; under specs, digitaltrends didn't list the p mode allowing 1 second.
First time I searched, dpreview didn't show up on the list, went to the site, searched the list of Sony cameras, didn't find this one. Pasted exactly the same thing for a new search, now dpreviews shows up!
But at least the other part of the mystery is solved; under specs, digitaltrends didn't list the p mode allowing 1 second.
