handheld shots are good up to something like 1/50th of a second....anything slower and you're going to get some blurs. you can also bump up your ISO to keep a faster shutter speed. regardless of your settings, i do highly recomment a good set of tripod. that and a remote shutter release and you'll take some awesome low light shots.

 

Remote triggers FTW. I've got a cheap wired one, and that's all you need to get rid of camera shake. Otherwise an alternative is throwing a 2 second delay on the shot, but that gets old after a while.

 

It's Thursday morning, and therefore I have more pics.

 

Yea I just got the nikon 1.8 50mm lens and a nikon tripod just haven't been able to use the tripod yet for the night shots. I need to get the wireless remote in the meantime ill just try you the 2 sec delay to get rid of the camera shake. Ill look into bumping my ISO up as well to see what happens.

Has anyone seen the new Nikon D800 its full frame and it shoots video I'm thinking about trading in my D90 for one any opinions on it.

 

Shots are so crisp any secrets lol? Great Job

 

Thanks!

First off, all of the low light shots are on a tripod, which helps immensely, and longer shutter speeds will help define the edges in the image on their own. I try to manually focus everything as well, 99% of the time you'll do better than the auto focus could ever hope to do, never mind the extra creative edge it gives you over everyone else who just points and clicks. In the end though, probably the biggest advantage I have is that while being a guy called 'Spaz', I'm actually pretty steady. If, as mentioned above, 1/50 is as good as it gets for handheld shots, I should probably take up brain surgery, with the number of clear 1/20s I've had.

I will admit that I did switch to autofocus on the shot of my buddy's dog, little guy never sits still long enough to manually focus on.

 

D7000, Kit lens, Track Day, And a Evo that just got beat down for 100 track miles.

 

that's my ultimate goal.......either the D800 or the Canon 5D mark III. Full frame FTW but they're so expensive FTL. the D800 is selling like hotcakes at Amazon right now. Both the D800 and 5D are $3k+ body only and im not sure how much you can get the D90 trade-in. Plus how seriously are you to justify spending that much for a camera?

 

here's some of mine....some may not be car related.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65738632@N02/6709666187/http://www.flickr.com/photos/65738632@N02/6709666187/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/65738632@N02/, on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65738632@N02/6709664125/http://www.flickr.com/photos/65738632@N02/6709664125/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/65738632@N02/, on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65738632@N02/6709663063/http://www.flickr.com/photos/65738632@N02/6709663063/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/65738632@N02/, on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65738632@N02/6562435723/http://www.flickr.com/photos/65738632@N02/6562435723/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/65738632@N02/, on Flickr

 

This thread is pretty sweet but where did the pics in the OP go?

 

The D800 is going for $2999 also if you get it from NH it won't have any sales tax so thats saving you some coin there. You have to pay about $1500 for a old used full frame camera body with X amount of clicks. But with the sensor from the D4, 36mp, Full Frame, and HD video capabilities. Its well worth the additional 1500 it if you plan on keeping the body for about 4-5yrs. Being on the leading edge of technology is always expensive

 

Highlight pics from tonight:











And yes, I realize I reuse angles and shots a lot. But I refuse to fix what isn't broke.

 

cmspaz great job man once again. The angles you are getting arent played out because its always a new car to see lol

 

I shoot a lot of the same cars every week because I know the owners, but I try to mix things up in my postings. We'll see how long I can keep that up, lol.

 

I forgot to add FJF's Beautiful EVO IX in here. Here are some of my most recent shots


http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916701760/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916701760/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/sillig25/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/7062822655/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/7062822655/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/sillig25/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916673076/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916673076/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/sillig25/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/7062797537/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/7062797537/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/sillig25/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916723336/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916723336/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/sillig25/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916738772/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916738772/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/sillig25/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916709488/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916709488/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/sillig25/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/7062830881/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/7062830881/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/sillig25/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916746356/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/6916746356/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/sillig25/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/7062811213/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillig25/7062811213/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/sillig25/, on Flickr