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Deuande
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5 years ago

https://helios-lens.com/ good?

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alex17595
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5 years ago

The technique you're looking for is called light painting. You set the shutter speed to a decent amount of time (how much depends on the size of the space and how strong your light source is)

I find the best way to learn is to have a play with the settings and go outside and take some pictures. Just go out at night and try taking photos of the street light up by lamps, it's exactly the same as taking photos in caves - except you don't have to light it up yourself.

ChrisJC
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5 years ago

"Deuande" wrote:
Hi all. How can I take a picture in a cave and have it come out perfect? I don't want to use the flash.

With a LOT of practice!

Chris.

Morlock
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5 years ago

This what you get with 15 seconds and f2.8 with LED lamp and exposure corrected later.

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TwllMawr
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5 years ago

Here's one of my many perfect pictures taken with the natural light available underground.

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JohnnearCfon
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5 years ago

Caves? What are caves? :lol::lol:

Hattlebags
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5 years ago

Or just use an IPhone that is less than 2 years old. Their ability to produce unfeasibly good pictures with poor lighting is bordering on the annoying. After years of lugging around tripods, fancy cameras and more lights than Blackpool, then spending ages on each shot, I now get better results using my iPhone X.

Wormster
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5 years ago

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Lightpainting..........

Can be done in Caves, Mines and Quarries:o:o

Better to regret something you have done - than to regret something you have not done.

Barney
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5 years ago

"JohnnearCfon" wrote:
Caves? What are caves? :lol::lol:

A popular high street greengrocers I believe

Barney
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5 years ago

#10

"Deuande" wrote:
Hi all. How can I take a picture in a cave and have it come out perfect? I don't want to use the flash. I want only the lighting that is put in the cave. What settings should I use?

What set up do you have - SLR, compact etc??

Down and beyond
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5 years ago

#11

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This was took on a iPhone with my new scorpion x12 cap lamp from Roy fellows no editing required extremely pleased with it a truly great cap lamp

From the land of the pillar and stall

ChrisJC
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5 years ago

#12

You have to give a little bit of credit to the camera in the phone too.

Chris.

Down and beyond
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5 years ago

#13

This was took with same phone just my old headtorch the phone does deserve some credit but you can tell the photo quality difference immediately

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From the land of the pillar and stall

Morlock
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5 years ago

#14

How many Mpix is the I-Phone?

Down and beyond
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5 years ago

#15

It is a iPhone XR I believe it’s 12 I no their not perfect but good enough for my standard and easy to carry compared to a real camera

From the land of the pillar and stall

royfellows
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5 years ago

#16

"ChrisJC" wrote:
You have to give a little bit of credit to the camera in the phone too.

Chris.

Meeow

My avatar is a poor likeness.

royfellows
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5 years ago

#17

Tip, hold the camera of whatever sort out to the side at arms length if possible, will increase shadow depth.

My avatar is a poor likeness.

royfellows
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5 years ago

#18

Here you are

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Old Ham, RFD, NAMHO 2018. Fuji XP 120 full auto, ISO 200, hand held. Illumination from Imolent DX 80 32K lumens held out at full reach to the left. Look at the shadow and light pattern. You could hold the camera in front of you and take helmet off and hold out to the side. Obviously the Scorp is good, thanks for the praise, but you would need higher ISO setting to get a decent aperture and shutter speed.

My avatar is a poor likeness.

ChrisJC
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5 years ago

#19

"royfellows" wrote:

"ChrisJC" wrote:
You have to give a little bit of credit to the camera in the phone too.

Chris.

Meeow

:lol::lol:Credit where it's due!

10 years ago, nomatter how bright your head torch you wouldn't be taking a photo like that from a phone!

Chris.

royfellows
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5 years ago

#20

Sorry back again, I have hijacked the thread!

This is to demonstrate my solo photography technique which works for me.

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Go fullscreen on it and you will see the sharpness and solidarity of it. Its a Sony DSC H400 bridge camera, read crypto DSLR. Manual settings, ISO 100, F6.4 for 5 seconds. Slate, especially Cambrian, seriously soaks up the light. Hence the black cats in dark cellars we often see.

It was set on a tripod and on self timer. Caplamp is Scorpion X16, note the blue power light, can be covered with tape for photos. The backlighting is the DX 80 set on about 14K, the fill in light behind me is the daylight coming in. I normally take the DX80 plus the X16 hand torch with a diffuser, this does about 9K, but not needed here.

My avatar is a poor likeness.