The Road to Darkness

Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Sigma ART 50 mm ƒ/1.4
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200

The first shots in my night photography set were taken with the Sigma ART 50  ƒ/1.4, but I soon decided it cramps everything up too much. I attached the Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm, one of my oldest two lenses on the nose of the camera, set it up at ƒ/16 and started shooting. (The setting was spot on so I didn't have to change anything the for rest of the shoot.)

Then this happened:

Suddenly, light trails appeared.

Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200

The next one is a shot most of the people following my OPED project have seen me publish last night.

Passing cars passing cars.

Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200

Some of you were asking how the light trails are done, and if I used lasers to create them. Well the truth is it's much simpler. I set the cameras exposure to 30 seconds, which means everything that happens during that 30 second time frame will get recorded "on the film" (that is, by the sensor). And while there's still traffic on the street, all the tail lights of the passing cars get recorded as these nice light trails you see here.

Next up, we had a car passing to the other direction:

Front lights changing from high-beam to low-beam.

Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200

You can see how the driver changes their lights from high to low-beam, a quite dramatic change.

The next photo however, has traffic going both directions:

Both front-lights and tail-lights trailing in the shot

Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200

I'd say this one is the most perfect photo of the bunch. Had to save it for today though because that's how the story sometimes folds. :) It was a fun shoot, although my feet were kind of sore after all that walking. (Took me a while since I figured out what to shoot so I walked around aimlessly for almost an hour, carrying the full gear; camera, tripod, lenses, remote triggers, even the flash. :D)

Anyway, here's the last shot I did last night:

Darkness, lit path.

Camera body: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Super Carenar MC 1:2.8 ƒ=35 mm
Aperture: ƒ/16
Exposure: 30 s
ISO: Dual-ISO 100+200

While walking home I decided to shoot the path I walked on. Even that came out fine. :)

All-in-all I quite like the old Super Carenar lens at night, it delivers quite nice low-light photos.

Thank you for participating on this trip! :)

!originalworks

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