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Blinded by the Light......

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AllenOK

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Tried something different tonight. I was hoping to try to capture the arc as a bug hits my bug zapper. I started off shooting from inside the house, zoomed in on the zapper, but couldn't really make anything out, even varying my exposure and f-stop. I moved closer, out into the backyard, and still couldn't really get anything decent. I finally moved to about 10' away, and captured this one. If you look hard, in the upper-right quadrant of the zapper, you'll see two small cyan spots, that are bugs frying.

I captured this in Manual mode, 30 second exposure, f36 (as tight as I could get the aperture), and auto-focus.

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Any thoughts on getting better shots? I'm thinking open the aperture up a bit, and reduce the exposure.

Disclaimer: My images may not show due to bandwidth limitations. If they are not visible, check back at a later time.

HH from Allen in OK
 
Excellent shooting Allen! Did you end up taking another run at it? It takes some experimentation to get it right, doesn't it? I find it helpful to make notes and keep them in a little notebook.. Helps get me in the ballpark sooner the next time I want to try another project with nearly the same conditions.

A while back I wanted to take some night shots of where I work. No matter what I did when i got the level of brightness that i wanted on the building and lawn, the sign was casting so much light that you couldn't read it.

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I ended up taking a range of exposures and cloning the lettering on the sign in from a lower exposure photo. I still have a halo of light around the sign but it worked out alright.

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Bob
 
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