#GoPro Featured Photographer - @nickkeating About the shot: This one was a collaboration between @aaronchase and I. It was the second night of shooting GoPro’s Bike Athlete Camp at @skinorthstar in #Truckee, California and we had tossed around the idea of playing with some long exposure night photography. By 11pm the moon had risen over Northstar’s summit providing us the ambient light needed to fill out the landscape. Along with our GoPro kit, we packed a small LED flashlight for mounting to Chase with the plan to record his moonlit line down one of Northstar’s flow trails. How the shot was captured: When we first found our location, we took a handful of test shots to dial in the settings for the scene - landing on a 30sec shutter, at 400 ISO and a White Balance of 3000K in Night Photo mode. After deciding on the angle we wanted to shoot from, but without a tall enough tripod, we looked to MacGyver and attached a Jaw’s Flex Clamp to the end of a tree branch which we held up by stacking a handful of large nearby rocks around its base. The camera framed up, Chase made his way up the trail to blast a few runs, and with the GoPro synched to a phone, we were able to trigger the camera as well as review and adjust after each shot. It was in this shot that Chase’s light trail made the most striking ark down the run, and the clouds opened up to allow the stars to pop through. The inherent experimentation of photographing by night builds an anticipation and excitement between each exposure, and once this image popped up on the screen, Chase and I were psyched for having made the effort to knock out a little midnight session. #ProTip: When shooting long exposure night photos, I always shoot at the lowest possible ISO for the scene as well as set my in-camera sharpness to Low. The low ISO will provide a much cleaner, less grainy image, and the low sharpness will reduce the risk of magnifying any noise. All sharpening you wish to add can then be done selectively in your favorite software or phone app.

goproさん(@gopro)が投稿した動画 - 2015/10/10 07:02:40