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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
07-30-2018, 01:48 PM
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Originally posted by BrianR  It's easy enough to stack multiple exposures which lets you keep the ambient light down but still have several minutes (or even hours) worth of firefly activity. Newer cameras even have a built-in multi-exposure blending mode that should be suitable ("Bright" mode).
Just one of the many things I use a tripod for . I use mine frequently, I've regretted being lazy and not using it far too often.
I often stack multiple exposures but when it gets totally dark I also like to play with longer exposures in a single frame, too. Most of my firefly photography is in my backyard so I literally only carry it around 100 feet into the woods and point it away from adjacent buildings and the street. |
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
07-30-2018, 12:13 PM
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Since I have a big backyard, I manage to point my camera away from the apartment next door and don't get too much light even at long exposures. Of course sometimes the moon comes up early and overpowers everything. But I find sometimes a dreamy twilight look can be magical for fireflies.
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
07-30-2018, 10:07 AM
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Ter-Or - good luck with better weather. And definitely try long exposures for fireflies. I shoot anywhere from a second to minutes for them, with varying looks. It's always magical to photograph them, regardless of the end results :)
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
07-29-2018, 09:48 AM
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Ter-Or- This reminds me to get out and do some more firefly long exposure photos. I should go to some open areas, but they really like the same places mosquitoes do...
I've been shooting fireflies a lot this spring and summer, in the Smokies, a local park, and most often in my yard. I think in my longest exposures there must be some mosquito trails- they are definitely more abundant most nights than the fireflies :)
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
07-26-2018, 07:03 PM
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Usually during the day i don't use a tripod, except when I am shooting landscapes and want everything sharp from foreground to distant background. But this summer I've been shooting a lot with tripods, mainly fireflies. Sometimes my exposures are minutes long, and there is definitely no way I could handhold those shots. Plus I want the stability for shorter exposures to allow focus stacking later. But with most of my photography I want the flexibility to change angles quickly to explore my subjects, so in most situations would only use a tripod maybe 10% of the time.
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