Robert Watcher
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It was pitch black tonight - impossible to identify any of the mountains outside our living room window - until the clouds lit up from time to time from lightening. Unfortunately by the time I got my camera set up, the intense lightning had moved on - but I managed one decent shot.
I have never setup or attempted to use any of 3 amazing features built into my Olympus EM10 and EM1 bodies. Live Bulb, Live Time and Live Composite. What took me some time to get my camera set up, was that I had to go online and see what the difference of each was - and then try and figure out how to set the camera and then use them.
The setting that intrigued me most, was Live Composite - and that is the setting I used to catch the mountains being silhouetted by the lightening tonight. The beauty of that setting is, that unlike a normal long exposure where all light builds and builds, constant exposures are being taken until you click the shutter to stop the capture - and only new bright light is added. That means that foreground lights on buildings or bright skies, don’t increase in brightness and ultimately blow out (such as the building lights at bottom left that I used for focus) - even after many minutes of the shutter being open.
It is quite remarkable really. Now I want to head down to my favourite rotunda some night, and try Live Composite out on a night time street scene with cars lights.
I have never setup or attempted to use any of 3 amazing features built into my Olympus EM10 and EM1 bodies. Live Bulb, Live Time and Live Composite. What took me some time to get my camera set up, was that I had to go online and see what the difference of each was - and then try and figure out how to set the camera and then use them.
The setting that intrigued me most, was Live Composite - and that is the setting I used to catch the mountains being silhouetted by the lightening tonight. The beauty of that setting is, that unlike a normal long exposure where all light builds and builds, constant exposures are being taken until you click the shutter to stop the capture - and only new bright light is added. That means that foreground lights on buildings or bright skies, don’t increase in brightness and ultimately blow out (such as the building lights at bottom left that I used for focus) - even after many minutes of the shutter being open.
It is quite remarkable really. Now I want to head down to my favourite rotunda some night, and try Live Composite out on a night time street scene with cars lights.