How to get the Shot. Episode 2: "Malmsbury Rail Bridge"

3/7/2017

In this episode of How to get the Shot we take a trip down to the beautiful and iconic Malmsbury Railway Bridge and take a look behind the scenes explaining how to get a low angle image of the bridge, night sky, rocks and flowing water.
It's never easy working in the dark around water, especially with slippery rocks all around but if you take it slow and steady you'll get the result in the end.

In this video I'll explain my techniques and motivation behind the capture. I also demonstrate my light painting process as well as a focus stacking method for obtaining sharp focus across the whole image.

This location is certainly one of my favourites and I go there often to capture nightscapes. Some of my favourites are shown below.

2 Hours shooting at the Malmsbury Rail Bridge

This timelapse video was taken during a group photo session at Malmsbury in October 2016. It spans approximately 2 hours as we took dozens of images and enjoyed lots of laughs and fun.

At this time of year the milky way core can be seen setting low in the south western sky.

5 Comments

Brett link

4/7/2017 07:15:53 pm

Great shots, well done

Richard

4/7/2017 07:37:57 pm

Thanks Brett appreciate the comment.

Brent Provost

10/10/2020 05:48:16 am

Hello Richard! 1st i want to let you know that i have donated to your page because i absolutely love your work and i feel the time and effort you've put into your content deserves compensation. Also by donating i am hoping i can ask questions along the way.
my 1st question is: looking at my camera screen at night, how do i know i have the correct exposure? it doesn't seem that the LCD screen gives an accurate representation of good exposure. For instance my camera screen may look good at ISO 6400, but i wonder if 3200 may have worked better. i understand trial and error, but am hoping you have some quick tips. Thank you, Brent

Richard Tatti

10/10/2020 09:02:54 am

Hi Brent. Thanks so much for your very encouraging words of support. And I do appreciate your generosity.
The rear screen on the camera is often very bright .. especially at night. So you'll often notice the raw files to be quite dull when you see them in lightroom. That's normal. Most night images won't jump off the screen .. you have to bring them to life in the editing stage.
All I can say is that you'll get a feel for what works best for your camera after doing a number of shots and editing them.
There are a lot of variables when it comes to photography. Your images may well be ok at iso3200 and I'd suggest shooting some at that and seeing how they come up after editing.

Brent

11/10/2020 06:46:21 am

Thanks for the reply Richard. I intend to take your advice. I realized I could practice in my own back yard. Not sure why I never thought about that before.

How to get the Shot. Episode 2: "Malmsbury Rail Bridge"

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