Experiment - Nikon S9050 on a tripod shooting through the kitchen window. Had to take a lot of shots as the scene was so dark. In fact the LCD screen was virtually blank even with the outside lighting switched on. Exposure was about one second. These were about the best of the bunch. Orange sky is the falling snow reflecting the sodium street lights. Also there is an interior reflection from the window.
All photos tweaked with the ReDynaMix plug-in in Photoshop Elements.
Yellow foreground is from a low energy lamp outside.
Finally I tried the Lumix TZ7. This time I was able to see a dim view of the scene on the LCD screen. The Lumix took 8 seconds to take the photo plus another 3 or 4 seconds processing before it was saved.
Interestingly both cameras claimed they were properly focussed by giving a green indication on their screens and by beeping. Both cameras were set to their fully automatic settings with flash forced off.
it's a pretty scene.
ReplyDeleteTWG: I often think snow looks better at night.
DeleteThe photos are almost like paintings. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThey do Bonnie.
DeleteVery effective John. It looks like we had more snow than you did, not as much as some places though. Love the photo of Penny surveying the scenery on the last post.
ReplyDeleteJan: We ended up with four inches of snow by bedtime though some disappeared overnight.
DeleteVery surreally beautiful. The orange sky in the background definitely sets off the foreground in an interesting way.
ReplyDeleteWilma: Coloured night lighting takes the bleakness off a snowy scene.
DeletePretty. Seconds frozen in time. I've recently noticed that your weather is a precursor to what we will be getting in Minnesota the very next day. Not sure how that can be however.
ReplyDeleteImaBurdie: Funny about our weather following each other. I know that if the east coast of the US has bad snow we get it about a week later when the weather patterns cross the Atlantic.
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