when you overexpose night photos and you have a lot of moon light and no artificial light you get pictures which look like they are taken on a sunny day - just with stars.
#photography #LongExposure
@bsod Wow. That's amazing. Do you have any more of these?
@ster unfortunately I've got not a lot of these. At most places you just get pictures with yellowish-orange sky instead.
these two pictures from the same evening are a bit similar but not as impressive as the original one I suspect.
@bsod that is an absolutely fantastic photo.
@bsod Wow!!! And the colors? Do you get then naturally or is there any postprocessing regarding that?
@xiroux I did some post processing on the picture but not a lot. nothing regarding the color.
the reason why people don't see color in the night is because they have 2 kinds of light sensitive cells in the eye and the ones which can sense color are only used when you have lots of light and there are monochrome ones used in low light scenarios. the camera has only a color sensor so it does see colors even at night (but needs lots of light for it)
@bsod It's amazing, thanks for sharing :)
@bsod Maybe this is how vampires see the night. πŸ€”πŸ˜
@bsod thats soooo pretty!
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@bsod whoa hang on, how do you get the color range? moonlight, being reflected off a greyson surface, doesn’t have full spectrum does it?
@amy it does. it's just regular sunlight reflected by something gray (the moon). you just can't see it usually and aren't used to it as humans can't see color in low light.
@bsod That looks really cool! I've tried doing that in the past but it didn't come out half as well as yours.
@bsod New rule. ALL photos containing the sky must be taken using this method from this point forward.
@bsod wow! really? Is this picture taken like that? What time was it when you took it?
@jorge yes, the text was more like an explanation to the image (as most people don't notice the stars on first look)
the image was taken at 23:50 (or 11:50 PM if you prefer this kind of time format ;) )
@bsod I was so surprised when I found out! It's fantastic!

@bsod The only thing that gives it away (and makes it even more beautiful) are the stars.

I experimented with that as well at some point, taking pictures of roses.

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That's amazing! I would have thought the white balance would be very different, eg far cooler...

@bsod That is definitely cool.
@bsod and the stars look as if it’s just film grain. (Beautiful photo, and great tip!!! Thanks!)
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Inspires me to get out of town for a couple nights and go camping. Once the smoke clears, that is!
@bsod What camera did you take the photos with?
@Unairedspecifics nothing particularly fancy.
An Olympus OM-D E-M10 (Mark I) with the standard 14-42mm Lens
@bsod Movie crews sometimes do the opposite to film night scenes during the day. Adjusting shutter speeds to reduce exposure times results in a dimly-lit look even in broad daylight, except that hard shadows can be a dead giveaway.
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Very nice. The giveaway would be the star streaks I guess. The length of which should reveal the exposure time, no?