Some Night Shots from York

dibbly dobbler · 17 Oct 2012

On a trip to York at the moment, very photogenic place

All Saints Pavement Church, York by Dibbly Dobbler, on Flickr

Cliffords Tower, York by Dibbly Dobbler, on Flickr

Newgate Market, York by Dibbly Dobbler, on Flickr

sbowler579 · 17 Oct 2012

What a great set of shots, just love the first one, very nice technique.

dibbly dobbler · 17 Oct 2012

Thanks Steve, appreciated

mesharp · 17 Oct 2012

First one is awesome!

What settings did you use?

IanClark · 17 Oct 2012

oooh, All Saints and Star Trails. Wish I'd thought of that. Brilliant shot. Nice long exp. on the castle too. Touch blown out but who cares

. Wonder how it would fare trying the minster with trails?

@Mesharp, at a guess, I'd say a decent number of minimally short exposures (couple of minutes at a time or a little longer maybe). ISO 800 or so, all stacked together. Dibbly will be able to confirm.

dibbly dobbler · 17 Oct 2012

Thanks chaps

Mike - it was 21 images at 30secs each, roughly f5 and iso 200 then stacked in Starstax.

Ian - thanks. I had a go at trails over the Minster last year. Bit of a challenge due to the light pollution but it's just about possible!

York Minster Star Trails by Dibbly Dobbler, on Flickr

IanClark · 17 Oct 2012

Certainly a good effort Mike, looks good. It's a trade off of shutting down the aperture and having a longer exposure time per shot at lower ISO as opposed to maybe upping the ISO, opening the aperture and taking hundres of much shorter shots increasing your shutter count all for the sake of a single image would you not agree

Might give this a go with The Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool sometime. It's location is actually in a slightly darker part of the city (as opposed to the Catholic Cathedral half a mile away that has street and ambient lighting all over the place)

mesharp · 17 Oct 2012

Thanks! will have to give it a try

dibbly dobbler · 17 Oct 2012

IanClark said:
Certainly a good effort Mike, looks good. It's a trade off of shutting down the aperture and having a longer exposure time per shot at lower ISO as opposed to maybe upping the ISO, opening the aperture and taking hundres of much shorter shots increasing your shutter count all for the sake of a single image would you not agree

Might give this a go with The Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool sometime. It's location is actually in a slightly darker part of the city (as opposed to the Catholic Cathedral half a mile away that has street and ambient lighting all over the place)

Hi Ian. Yes agree totally - my usual approach is to go with 30secs and aperture a stop or two off wide open then add iso as appropriate. If it's a dark-ish spot then maybe up to iso 800 but not for inner city stuff.

Good luck with the Cathedral in Liverpool - look forward to seeing the results