Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 28mm |
ISO | 160 |
Shutter speed | 30s |
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Aperture | ƒ/11 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 28mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 15s |
Grand Parade Ferris Wheel
I used Magic Lantern to shoot 30 photos of this scene yesterday evening and made a video of it with ffmpeg.
ffmpeg -framerate 2 -pattern_type glob -i “2015-12-13*.jpg” -vcodec libx264 -s 1920×1280 -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf fps=25 out.mp4
Combining them into one one photo looks like this..
Aperture | ƒ/10 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 1.6s |
Grand Parade Ferris Wheel
Aperture | ƒ/22 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 15s |
Fly me to Moon with Santa!
Aperture | ƒ/13 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 4s |
Ferris Wheel and Lights
Aperture | ƒ/22 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 30s |
Light Trails on Patrick’s Street
Aperture | ƒ/22 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 50 |
Shutter speed | 30s |
Light Trails on Academy Street
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 50 |
Shutter speed | 13s |
Light Trails on Patrick’s Street
Aperture | ƒ/22 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 50 |
Shutter speed | 10s |
Swinging Fire #2
Aperture | ƒ/8 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 20s |
Swinging Fire #1
Aperture | ƒ/4 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 24mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 13s |
Use Back Button Focus to Pre Focus
Sometimes it’s useful if the shutter button doesn’t focus. Instead you press another button to focus. I’ve used it in the past when shooting street photography (focus on the ground and I know anything a metre away will be in focus), and at night on a tripod when taking long exposure shots of moving lights.
Back button focus is when you don’t use your shutter button to focus the camera. Instead you’ll use a button on the back of your camera. Not every camera can do it but check your manual or use Google to search for your camera name and “back button focus”. Here are two good videos describing why it’s good for sports photography:
Here’s a video I found to get it working on the Canon 6D using the AF-On button. I usually use the Q menu now to disable focusing on the shutter button.
The beauty of back button focusing is that you can focus your camera before the proper shoot and then take as many photographs as you want of the scene, often when the lighting has changed and focusing is impossible. This is especially important at night, but it also lets you shoot faster as the lens is already focused. This may just mean the difference between a great street photo and a missed opportunity.
Finally, here’s a photo I shot last night using back button focus to set up the shot. I could as easily have manually focused the lens but this worked just as well.
Aperture | ƒ/4.5 |
Camera | Canon EOS 6D |
Focal length | 17mm |
ISO | 100 |
Shutter speed | 10s |