NIGHT TIME PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS AND MORE

HELLO MY FRIENDS!  AS I MENTIONED BEFORE,  I RECENTLY ATTENDED A PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP.  I LEARNED QUITE ALOT THERE BUT NEEDLESS TO SAY,  I'M NOT AN EXPERT ON PHOTOGRAPHY.   I TRIED TO DO MY BEST AND HERE ARE  SOME OF MY PHOTOS.

Now let’s move outdoors. Outdoor photo subjects include elaborate lighting and decoration on houses, stores, and streets. Again, if you want to capture the lights themselves, don’t use your flash! One other tip for outdoor lights – you’ll get the best results when you shoot at twilight. That way, you’ll capture some color in the sky, rather than the pitch-black tone that will be recorded on film later at night. But what if you want to take a picture of your friend in front of a brightly lit display?

You want to capture both the bright lights and your friend. If you use flash, you get your friend, but you’re in danger of minimizing the bright lights behind. On the other hand, if you don’t use flash, you get better detail of the lights but your friend is reduced to a silhouette.

There is an answer. Many of today’s point-and-shoot cameras both film and digital have a funny-looking setting that looks like a person with a star in the background. This setting tells the camera that you want the flash to fire (which will light your friend in the foreground), but that you also want the lens to stay open long enough to record the lights in the background. In fact, the symbol for this setting on many cameras is sort of a hieroglyph that tries to indicate “person at night in front of lights.” Your solution to getting light on your friend’s face and capturing the light display is to use this setting. The flash exposes the face. The long exposure captures the lights.

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But, again, watch out here. The long exposure – typically, one-quarter of a second long – requires that you steady your camera to avoid camera shake. Once again, I advise you to use a tripod.

So, This is your summary for today:

• Turn off your flash unless you have a very good reason to use it.
• Use a fast ISO – we suggest ISO 800.
• Avoid camera shake.
• Use a tripod…or, at least, brace the camera. Trust your camera’s built-in meter.

MORE PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS AND GREAT INFO ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY HERE. 

I hope you like my post.  Please leave comments or questions if you are interested in learning about my humble experiences at my SCAD photography workshop :) 

HAPPY WEEKEND TO ALL!!!

XX, LANA