Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now that you've gotten some serious answers ... 1) Tripods ... never used one with a shotgun 2) Meter ... well, if you step back about 20 meters you should get a good spread from a 16 or 20 gauge. 3) Reciprocity failure? ... some guns kick a lot. Sissies have rubber padding on the stock. 4) Oh ... film. I thought this was something like a turkey shoot :-) Exposure depends on what you want: lights or environment in which the lights are found. The lights are fairly bright, so you would end up with short times (but would lose your environment). If you want the whole environment, the lights will get blown out, but it might make a good effect. Go ahead and use daylight film. The color shift might work for you. Just bracket all over the place. Digital would be a LOT easier, but you know that already. Best, Daniel On 12/1/05, Scott McLoughlin <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote: > I'm interested in shooting some xmas trees at night (outdoors). I plan to > use a tripod, I suppose. But how should I meter the trees? They will be > all lit up. Will I run into reciprocity failure issues? What might be some > good films to use, color and B&W? > > Thanks for any and all suggestions. > > Scott > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >