[Leica] Burney Falls at night

[photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)]

I like both the making of and the final scene - well done - super location 
too

Amities
Philippe

Le 20 mai 2016 ? 18:44, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> a ?crit :

> Here is a shot of Burney Falls in Northern California at night.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s6/nc/Burney+Falls-9475.jpg.html
> 
> It was a frustrating shoot.  I could not get my Nikon 16-35 to focus on 
> anything well.


Did you try in manual mode? 


>  No matter how I tried, it was always blurry.  Never had that problem at 
> night before.  I switched to my Rokinon 12mm fisheye and it worked just 
> fine and I got the above photo.  It was very dark in the valley.  There 
> was not much of a moon and it set soon after we got there, so we had to 
> light the falls with a flashlight.  I forgot about the wideness of my 
> fisheye and my first attempt to light the falls included an unwanted guest 
> at the edge of the photo.  And you can see the mist from the falls that 
> was also a problem.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s6/nc/Burney+Falls-9474.jpg.html
> 
> I had to move to the other side of the camera to stay behind it to get the 
> shot I linked first.  I guess this is one instance where chimping your 
> shot paid off.
> 
> View them large if you can.
> 
> Comments welcome
> 
> Aram
> 
> 
> Aram Langhans
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> & Unemployed photographer
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