Ancient caves.
Going to visit an archeological site which consists for ancient caves. No flash photography permitted. Any tips will be highly appriciated.
(1)Hopefully your camera performs well in low light and u can push the ISO as high as you can w/o too much noise; (2) your lens is fast (1.4-1.7);(3) your body and/or lens have IBS ( in body stabilization); (4) consider a wide angle prime lens
Enjoy the scenery.
BJW wrote:
(1)Hopefully your camera performs well in low light and u can push the ISO as high as you can w/o too much noise; (2) your lens is fast (1.4-1.7);(3) your body and/or lens have IBS ( in body stabilization); (4) consider a wide angle prime lens
Enjoy the scenery.
Great advice! Also I have to remind myself that a sharp grainy pic is much better than a smooth fuzzy one! So go ahead and push the ISO now and deal with the grain later. Oh! and don't forget to set the ISO back to normal when you get out of the caves!! I have neglected to do each of these things in extra low light so I'm speaking from my own sad experience.
High ISO, wide f-stop, mono-pod if allowed
carrying, Canon 6D, tamron 90mm f2.8, canon 50mm 1.8, tripod, reflector.
Gene51 wrote:
Where are you going?
No fair practicing in the subway, Gene!
Hmmm, might be a good idea!
bobmcculloch wrote:
High ISO, wide f-stop, mono-pod if allowed
How would you use a reflector in ancient caves? I can surely understand why, given the low light, but how would you manage it? It sounds like a great idea if the reflector isn't too large and bulky. Might even give enhanced natural ambient light to your shots and more detail in your shadowss. Sounds interesting. Happy shooting. Enjoy the trip
BJW
BJW wrote:
How would you use a reflector in ancient caves? I can surely understand why, given the low light, but how would you manage it? It sounds like a great idea if the reflector isn't too large and bulky. Might even give enhanced natural ambient light to your shots and more detail in your shadowss. Sounds interesting. Happy shooting. Enjoy the trip
BJW
Reflector? Who said anything about a reflector?
rosarioc62 Joined: Jun 30, 2012 Posts: 188 Loc: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
"carrying, Canon 6D, tamron 90mm f2.8, canon 50mm 1.8, tripod, reflector."
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See Rosarioc62's second post of this string, as I quoted above. Last word: "reflector"
BJW
its my first time to an ancient cave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellora_Caves carrying flash reflector..to get correct info is very difficult so dont want to be sorry last moment for not carrying stuff as we are going by car.
BJW wrote:
rosarioc62 Joined: Jun 30, 2012 Posts: 188 Loc: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
"carrying, Canon 6D, tamron 90mm f2.8, canon 50mm 1.8, tripod, reflector."
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See Rosarioc62's second post of this string, as I quoted above. Last word: "reflector"
BJW
My apology, BJW. I missed that.
Peterff
Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.
A quick response. Caves are hard for all sorts of reasons. Flash can damage cave paintings. Caves are naturally dark, very dark, so you will depend on whatever lighting is inside the cave, which will be low to protect the cave paintings and so on, which typically means a tripod and long exposures will be required to get any decent results. If this is a public tour then it is likely that tripods will not be allowed, and even if they are, very difficult to use for a whole host of reasons, including access, time to set up and so on. I would suspect that you will have to rely on hand held available light photography, so the widest aperture lens you have would be a good thing to take along.
You may be lucky, but I wouldn't put your hopes too high. If at all possible, talk to them ahead of time and find out what the possibilities are, unless this is a private trip, which is a different discussion.
rehess
Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA
rosarioc62 wrote:
carrying, Canon 6D, tamron 90mm f2.8, canon 50mm 1.8, tripod, reflector.
I would expect your 50mm lens to be your "workhorse"; is it stabilized??
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