Ron Shoots

Here’s a cool zoom shot of the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge. Referred to by the locals as the “Coat Hanger”, the structure is the world’s largest steel arch bridge.

Zoom shots like this are pretty easy to shoot. With the camera on a tripod, I mess around with the settings until I get the exposure around 15 seconds. The “focused” image is the first part of the exposure- I count down 10 seconds, then for the remaining part of the exposure, I twist the zoom ring until the exposure ends. This movement of the zoom gives the streak effect as the highlights are “painted” on to the image. The ballpark camera settings for this shot were ISO 200, f/16 at 15 seconds. The lens was a 24-105mm. With digital, its easy to look at the LCD and see if you’ve got the shot.