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03/28/2010 12:16:15 PM · #1 |
For those interested in this photographic art form, you can learn a lot by studying this 10 screen discussion topic at FredMiranda:
Your Best Nightscapes and how they were made
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03/28/2010 12:20:02 PM · #2 |
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03/28/2010 12:30:48 PM · #3 |
Really cool!
Good for people like me who want to improve on night photography. Thanks for the share. |
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03/28/2010 01:05:48 PM · #4 |
| Thanks! im going out tonight to get some night shots this should help :) |
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03/28/2010 01:51:59 PM · #5 |
There are some very nice night shots and information in the link. Night shots might be a good DPC ongoing side challenge theme. I love shooting after sunset. It's something that was very difficult back in the film days, and is now quite easily done with digital and instant feedback by LCD. Seeing a scene and being able to envision an end result is still the most critical part of night shooting. The one I entered in the recent "Night Shot" challenge was shot when it was so dark that all I could see were the lights on the sailboats, and the outline of the trees above them. I knew what the scene looked like in the daytime, so I had an idea about how it would look, and what lens to use to frame the shot.
One tip about night shooting where it is dark, is that the scene will look a lot brighter in your LCD than it will when you bring it up on your computer because your eyes are adjusted to the dark when you are shooting. . Sometimes I compare a daytime shot on the LCD with the one that I just shot to make sure that I am not severely underexposing.
Message edited by author 2010-03-28 13:58:03.
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03/28/2010 02:18:46 PM · #6 |
| Excellent tip about viewing the pic on the screen - never thought of that but now that you mention it, it's so very true! |
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03/28/2010 02:38:45 PM · #7 |
Sometimes I turn the brightness on the LCD down when shooting at night so that my eyes are not constantly adjusting back and forth between the brightness of the LCD and the ambient scene. If I forget to turn it back up when I am done, it causes me to think that my camera is broken the next daytime shoot, when I can't see anything in the LCD LOL.
Another tip for shooting when it's very dark is to turn the camera off when composing or focusing, so that the heads-up display in the viewfinder does not blind me. It helps a lot when it is very dark out, like when shooting star pix, where focus is super critical.
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03/28/2010 03:03:19 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by MelonMusketeer:
I love shooting after sunset. It's something that was very difficult back in the film days, and is now quite easily done with digital and instant feedback by LCD. Seeing a scene and being able to envision an end result is still the most critical part of night shooting. |
Cameras with an electronic viewfinder (EVF) also preview the final exposure with a half-press of the shutter. I got probably my best night shot ever for last week's challenge, which (of course) I entered in Bizzarechecture instead of Night shot ...
I also felt pretty successful in bringing out the subtle tones caused by the land/sea/skyscape being lit entirely by city light pollution in this stitched panorama 
Message edited by author 2010-03-28 15:03:59. |
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