• Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    6 months ago

    How long was the exposure ? Feel like you used a long exposure or a high gain, and that it wasn’t that nice in real life

    • buffy@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      6 months ago

      I had to use both since I don’t own a nice camera or lenses. I think exposure time was around 6 seconds. If you darken it by 2EV, it should be close to how it looked to the naked eye

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 months ago

      You’d have to use a long exposure, right?

      If it were film, I’d say a fully open aperture, long exposure, and a high ISO film? I’m not sure on the ISO part, just guessing a finer-grain film will look better with wide aperture and long exposure, and also more sensitive to light (as you can tell, I’m no photographer).

      It does look a little bright, intense and saturated compared to what night looks like to the human eye. We lose the yellow spectrum, so browns in the ground are “right out”.

      I guess the thing to do in processing is temper the yellows and saturation?

      • buffy@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        6 months ago

        Yes, fully open aperture, long exposure (6"), and high ISO. I tried to recover the yellows that were (much) more apparent to the naked eye, and this made it look more saturated