BBC 0730 Photo - 26th October

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I've got the BBC breakfast show on and they are asking everyone to take a photo of the skyline outside their house at 0730 this mmorning to see how much light there is around the different areas of the UK at that time.

Well, here in Plymouth, it's pretty much dark, and the only way you would get anything half decent would be with a tripod and a camera you can do long exposures with.

What is the point? I will await the results, but suspect they will get a load of fuzzy shots showing noting, and, if you know what you're doing, you could lighten your shot anyway giving a false impression!

Maybe a shot at 0800 would be a bit better ...
 
In Bristol it wasn't dark, athough far from full daylight. I am a bit further East than you though and the cloud cover didn't help.
 
Bit of a pointless exercise really. Mr and Mrs average will be out in their backyard with their P&S, with the flash popping off everywhere, giving a false rendition of the available light, and Mr and Mrs hobbyiest will have their DSLR on a tripod, with a longish exposure, making the scene look as if it is in pretty decent daylight.

If the BBC had asked everyone to take a shot of the skyline, after setting the camera with specific ISO/aperture/shutter values, shooting manually, they'd have had something that would make for a meaningful comparison.
 
Scarecrow said:
Bit of a pointless exercise really. Mr and Mrs average will be out in their backyard with their P&S, with the flash popping off everywhere, giving a false rendition of the available light, and Mr and Mrs hobbyiest will have their DSLR on a tripod, with a longish exposure, making the scene look as if it is in pretty decent daylight.
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That's pretty much what I was thinking would happen. If it wasn't for the fact it was peeing it down, and if I could have been bothered, I may have dug my tripod out for a proper shot, but as it was so grim outside, I didn't bother.

Scarecrow said:
If the BBC had asked everyone to take a shot of the skyline, after setting the camera with specific ISO/aperture/shutter values, shooting manually, they'd have had something that would make for a meaningful comparison.
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Very good point.
 
Probably topping up their stock libraries, after all, when you send it to them, they can do what they want with it.
 
Scarecrow said:
If the BBC had asked everyone to take a shot of the skyline, after setting the camera with specific ISO/aperture/shutter values, shooting manually, they'd have had something that would make for a meaningful comparison.
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Mr and Mrs average wouldn't have a clue what they are talking about! :shrug: :D
 
They were trying to see how the light level varied from South to North at 7.30. I emailed them to say that unless they defined the shutter speed, aperture and iso settings then it would be meaningless and made the point by sending two pictures shot about 2 minutes apart, one with 1s, f/5.6 and iso200 and the other 30s, f/2.8 and iso1600 ~ one very dark and the other pretty damned bright :)

They didn't respond or make any comment to those taking pictures ... but I never actually expected them to.

It probably sounded like a good idea at the time :thinking:
 
It is a good idea if, as has been said, you state the parameters. If they want to do that, maybe they should get their regional cameramen out, who will probably also have a pretty good understanding of still camera workings, to take shots on agreed settings.

I bet they didn't understand your e-mail, hance the lack of response!
 
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