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Beautiful!! Congratulations!I love photography, but have never had a chance to take a picture of a launch, much less a night launch. I've seen from the EXIF data that you used bulb, and an exposure of 91s at ISO 100. That's how long it took to clear the frame? Seeing that it had some clouds, may be the sky wasn't that nice, but 30s at ISO 400 gives, almost the same Dynamic Range on a 7D and 1/3stop brighter background. In fact, the natural ISO of the modern Canon is 200, so lowering the ISO only gives you longer exposure time.BTW, shouldn't there be a sticky on how to photograph a launch?
A little late on this one, I know, but here's a shot I took of the NROL-66 launch. Hope you all like it
There are other ways to slow down the exposure, you can use iso 200 and an x2 ND filter. That gives you exactly the same exposure, but at the native ISO of the chip which gives you slightly more dynamic range. There's a nice experiment to do, with the wider lens. You can put the camera in multishot continuous 15s shots at ISO 400 and then merge them in postprocessing. It could be a real nice series.
Quote from: TitanFan on 02/24/2011 04:19 amA little late on this one, I know, but here's a shot I took of the NROL-66 launch. Hope you all like it Stunning. Great job! Thanks for sharing.
NRO website.