The Mustangs

[handmade34]

as you know I am just learning how to use my camera... I want to enter the dpreview category "Turning Night to Day" ...taking a night shot with long exposure... so I went out last night, about 10pm and tried to get shots of the "Mustangs at Las Colinas". The first shows how very dark it was there and then a few with the long exposure... I have to go back to get a better shot for the contest but I am so darned excited that I learned something new... still need a tripod though... would make this 1000 times easier

edit to add website and really good photos by someone else in the daytime
http://www.mustangsoflascolinas.com/
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/36894_P36Ea#1289538_YdrMP

[Callalily]

1. Photo 2 is very powerful!

Great use of lighting and shadows.

[Celebration]

2. these are beautiful

And what a great experiment. Thanks for sharing before and after. I actually think I am going to take a short photo course here in October, from an awesome wildlife photographer. Seeing these just pretty much confirmed that I need to do that. I think I can spare a couple of Saturdays and thirty five bucks.

I love the way the long exposure makes the sky look in these.

[handmade34]

5. I definitely need classes

starting this fall I am taking the pre-requisites for photoshop... 'elements of design' and 'platform manipulation' ...maybe I can learn a thing or two and I have a lot of work towards getting a really good long exposure photo

[hippywife]

3. You are doing so wonderfully!

These are absol-freakin-lutely gorgeous! :hi:

[NV Whino]

4. Fabulous sculpture

I like your idea of shooting at night. A tripod, multiple exposures and altering looks to be the ticket to me. Unless they don't allow that kind of manipulation.

[JeffR]

6. Good stuff! I love this idea.

How did you shoot these without a tripod? I'm assuming you had a solid horizontal surface to sit the camera on?

[handmade34]

7. well

I laid on the ground and shot from there ;-) I gotta get me a good tripod. I have a lightweight one for my little camera but it won't hold my canon

[JeffR]

8. Impressive results! I'd be afraid to try that

for fear of not being able to stand up again.:)

[h8okra]

9. Great photos! I feel like I was there. N/T