{"id":624,"date":"2007-12-11T22:36:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2014-08-05T20:32:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T20:32:50","slug":"night-time-photography-another-reason-to-go-fixed-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2007\/12\/11\/night-time-photography-another-reason-to-go-fixed-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Time Photography &#8211; Another Reason to Go Fast Fixed Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/nighttimephotographysample.jpg\" alt=\"NightTimePhotographySample.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"189\" height=\"277\" style=\"border:0px solid black;float:right;margin:5px;\" \/>When I recently purchased a 30mm F1.4 fixed focus lens I explained my reasons for doing so while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=608\">reviewing the lens<\/a>. Today I realised I left out yet another reason to add a fast fixed-focus lens to your collection. Because fast lenses gather insane amounts of light you can shoot hand-held at night and actually get good results. I did manage to get some night time images before using the standard 18-55mm zoom that comes as part of the Nikon D40 kit, but that was really working at the limit (see the results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/gallery\/index.php?\/category\/58\">here<\/a>). Because that lens is quite slow at F3.5-5.6 I had to crank the ISO up to 1600 and even then the exposure times were still very high. This resulted in images that were grainy and a lot had to be junked because they were blurred to a greater or lesser extent. <\/p>\n<p>On my way home from work this evening I had a go at some night time photography with my new F1.4 lens. It was such a nice experience! With the ISO turned down to 800 I could easily take hand held shots that look pretty good. <\/p>\n<p>You can see the results of my work in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/gallery\/index.php?\/category\/137\">this gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I recently purchased a 30mm F1.4 fixed focus lens I explained my reasons for doing so while reviewing the lens. Today I realised I left out yet another reason to add a fast fixed-focus lens to your collection. Because fast lenses gather insane amounts of light you can shoot hand-held at night and actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[88,460,493,139],"series":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-astrophotography","tag-hardware","tag-lens","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-a4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7814,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/7814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}