Joe Reifer

17 Comments

1. gabriel:

   Looks like you were out in the snow and cold for the Wolf Moon as well! Not much movement in the clouds for a 10 minute exposure…

   joe Reply:
   February 1st, 2010 at 5:12 pm

   G – Had really nice slow moving clouds the first part of the third night of shooting. Hope you had a good moon!

   1 February 2010, 9:19 am

2. Troy:

   Oh, frikin’ Brrrrrrrrr!

   joe Reply:
   February 1st, 2010 at 5:14 pm

   Wasn’t as cold as it looks, probably in the low 30′s in the early part of the night. Snow was from the previous week’s storm. Sleeping was the coldest part — had 5 layers on in a 20 degree rated sleeping bag, and that was just enough.

   1 February 2010, 12:50 pm

3. seb:

   Hi,

   I’ve had finally try those long exposures;) It was cold and to be honest I thought it wouldn’t work and the pictures will be out focus, but fortunately I have few frames that I’m happy with. My set on flickr: Long night work.

   Please tell me what you think of them, thanks mate.

   Regards.

   joe Reply:
   February 1st, 2010 at 5:16 pm

   You did well, seb. Great subject material and exposures. This one is my favorite. What was this place?

   1 February 2010, 1:44 pm

4. Mauro:

   Could not avoid to connect the title with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It_-zRgWRrI&feature=related

   joe Reply:
   February 1st, 2010 at 5:18 pm

   Ha! Glad the photo evoked a William S. Burroughs reference.

   1 February 2010, 2:59 pm

5. seb:

   Thanks mate:) The place(Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Kent, UK) is 75miles south east from London, I’ve discovered it November’08 and it is one of my favourite photo locations waiting for me;)

   2 February 2010, 1:24 am

6. ssprengel:

   What aperture was this, and how do you determine what you’ll use, in general? Do you use a light-meter or use high-ISO and the camera metering?

   joe Reply:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 8:22 am

   The full moon without city lights is usually 8-10 minutes at f/8 at ISO 100. The image above was taken 1 night after full, and there was a little bit of cloud cover, which meant an extra 1/2 stop of exposure.

   Calculating full moon exposures with digital is easy — just run a high ISO test shot. Here are 2 previous posts that cover test exposure technique: http://www.joereifer.com/words/?p=2080
   http://www.joereifer.com/words/?p=407

   ssprengel Reply:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 11:21 am

   Thanks. I have used both stacking and high-ISO estimation for some star-trail and night-scape experiments, but wanted to make sure there wasn’t some other way since you obviously have much more experience.

   joe Reply:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

   Excellent. If you’re using high-ISO and stacking already you’re ahead of the curve! Do you have some night work online?

   2 February 2010, 7:28 am

7. Mike:

   No way, you camped out there?

   It got into the high 30′s at the Slabs and I thought that was bad.

   joe Reply:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 12:40 pm

   Some of these locations were over 4000 feet. We camped lower down at Nipton, which I don’t recommend unless you like freezing your ass off and listening to dirt bikes at 7:30 a.m. – I wish we would’ve just stayed in the preserve.

   2 February 2010, 11:32 am

8. Jamie Watson:

   I love this photo.

   joe Reply:
   February 4th, 2010 at 8:42 am

   Thanks, Jamie! It’s one of my favorites from the trip.

   4 February 2010, 8:25 am