Here’s a tip: if you are ever in a position where, say, somebody else is driving so you can take photos while in a moving vehicle without endangering yourself or others, set your camera to shutter priority and get your shutter speed up to a reasonably fast setting, probably 1/250 at least.
I was not exactly in that position so I had to limit my distraction level and had the camera on automatic. The results are borderline to adequate, with a noticeable lack of sharpness due to a moderately slow shutter speed of 1/60, which is not fast enough when in a moving vehicle.
Golden Gate Bridge Crossing, near to sundown.
Chris Nitz
1 Jun 2011Nice little tip. I’ll always forget my camera has aperture and shutter priorities.
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Jim Denham
1 Jun 2011The clouds hanging over the bridge are very cool! Pretty good for a slow shutter – great tip too!
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Kristi Hines
1 Jun 2011Feels like a painting… not a bad effect for auto mode! 🙂
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Dave DiCello
1 Jun 2011Such a cool shot Mark, love the depth
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Jim Nix
1 Jun 2011I like it Mark! I have shot that bridge 7 ways to Sunday but never while driving across it! Great POV and love the processing, very painterly.
Rayven
1 Jun 2011Nice work! It’s as if it was taken by a professional. Nice pair of camera you’ve got brother.
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Terence Chang
1 Jun 2011Very interesting. I was not sure if 1/250 or faster will be able to capture enough light.
The photo looks like old alien movie and the other end of the bridge is on fire. Nice shot!
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Mark
2 Jun 2011Terence
That’s a fair point about the shutter speed and adequate light. Obviously it depends on time of day and the amount of light, but for this shot the camera was at 1/60 as previously mentioned, plus an aperture of f/3.5 and ISO of 320. Unless you have a very fast lens, there is not much room to open up the aperture, so raising the shutter speed would require increasing the ISO, and you would probably need to be around 1200-1280 (depending on how your camera sets the increments) if you jump from 1/60 to 1/250. At that point it depends on the camera, and its ability to handle such high ISO shots without generating too much noise. While 1200 is well within the tolerable range for many cameras, some will not handle such a high ISO rating well, and others might not even go that high. But if your camera can handle that ISO level well, I think it is worth moving both it, and the shutter speed, up accordingly.