Glow Fishing
Contrary to sea fishing tradition where moonless nights are used to attract the fish by artificial light, the lake fishermen find it effective to fish by the mo...
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Contrary to sea fishing tradition where moonless nights are used to attract the fish by artificial light, the lake fishermen find it effective to fish by the moonlight. Traditions and experiences aside, this moonlight version surely is cheaper - and more beautiful, too!
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Feb, 2014Views
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People's Choice in Nocturnal Photo Challenge
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pedronunoferreira
May 02, 2015
Peoples choice for nocturnal photo challenge. A top choice indeed. Well done.
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LookSee
May 02, 2015
Thanks, y'all, for voting my picture up to the People's Choice in the Nocturnal Photo Challenge! Much appreciated! :)
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Location
The photo was made right from our terrace. This might look like "zero effort" - but only if you disregard all that my wife and me have had to arrange, just to leave the big city and live where nice photos can be made right from our terrace. :)Time
It was October 19th, at 19:06. At Lake Ohrid in October, the night comes around 18:00.Lighting
The ambiental light is the single source here, meaning the moonlight. The coastline (showing Ohrid city lights) is 13 kilometers eastward from my POV.Equipment
The camera used was my old Sony F-828, exposure was 1/8 sec, @ f2.8 / 200 ISO. I was shooting without a tripod, just sitting down and keeping both elbows on the terrace table to have the camera steady. The F-828 is one pretty massive camera, so this was sufficient - even for 1/8 sec.Inspiration
It's the Lake, mosty. Ohrid is quite a big lake, roughly 30 X 14 kilometers, and backed by steep mountain range which creates and controls its climate - and thus its unbelievably protean face. Surface, color, texture, haze and overall visibility, all this changes virtually at least twice an hour, and we have already made a vast number of pictures, constantly delighted by this never-ending variety.Editing
The image was re-shaped by cropping out certain part of the night above, and leaving only a ribbon of black where the reed forest in the foreground ends the glittering surface. It put the coastline at roughly 1/3rd of the picture height, which accents the glitter as a theme. Finally, the surface area below the coastline has been masked out and converted to black & white, to maximize the texture contrast and bring out the fishing boat shape.In my camera bag
I don't use any photo bag, as all I need neatly fits the pockets of my photo vest. There will be the "main" camera, and a spare one (usually some water-tight P&S). The rest will normally consist of CPL and some ND filters, the timer-intervalometer for F-828, and spare batteries. I also like to carry a little clamp-with-ballhead thingy for when I need to stabilize the camera. Then I'd simply fasten the clamp to something solid and shoot long exposures.Feedback
Night shots require camera stability, since most night shots need long exposure. It makes us automatically think tripod, but let me remind you of other ways. One can use a simple bean-bag. It can be self-made from, say, an old shirt sleeve filled with, well, beans... or it can be improvised from a plastic bag and several handfuls of sand, shingle or dirt; great solution for one shoot. There are also camera clamps that can be fastened to nearly anything around you, and you attach the camera to the ballhead on the other end. This is a simple and straightforward carry-anywhere solution. If you can't find the clamp in your store, you could try internet, or consider making it yourself. Connecting some versatile clamp from hardware store to a typical ballhead is no rocket science! Such a clamp is small, light and sturdy. In windy weather it will be a lot steadier than the tripod. This I would recommend to all photographers. Lately there are several newly "re-invented" versions sold, especially for action cameras. Go for metal ones, and get the sturdiest you can find!
