​City night shooting experience

A lot of photography beginners will think that night scene is more difficult to handle than day scene, day scene can pick up the camera, canvas prints easy to take a picture of the scene, but night cannot be shot without a foot frame, but also to the shutter release, and take photos are either too light or too dark. In fact, as long as master some small skills, beginners can also easily take the night scene.

Filming equipment

Want to shoot city night scene, canvas prints australia need to prepare crural frame and shutter release commonly, and lens respect, basically do not have too big limitation, but prepare a wide Angle lens to be met commonly better.

It is worth mentioning that the legs. The camera bag can be hooked to the center axis of the foot rest to strengthen the center of gravity of the foot rest. On the other hand, in some cases, such as the foot frame is not high enough, you can consider the method of strain, so that the camera can be firmly shot. Sometimes I put two of my feet against the railing, and the whole camera is stuck outside the fence, but remembers, safety is the most important thing, large canvas prints and don't drop the camera. The camera can be worn with a neck strap and the shutter release in one hand and the camera strap in the other.

The location

City night scene here refers to the light reflected by the external walls of high-rise buildings, and the photos taken by different buildings. To take this kind of photo, you have to think about where you should go. Think about how many tall buildings you can see there (see, not be in a group of tall buildings). Two popular sites are briefly cited. One is the peak of Victoria harbour. The other is the avenue of stars in Tsim Sha Tsui. Both of these are hot spots for tourists and also for shooting. The top of the mountain has a view from the top down; The avenue of stars has a horizontal view.

Decide where you want to go and when you get there, look for the lights and see if there is any special light source or any special reflective effect. For buildings of average height and height, try to choose one of them as the main body, for example, especially tall, color, especially bright, and so on.

The weather

The weather is generally not too big a problem, even rain can also be photographed. If the sky is clear and clear, the sky will be dark, and the building lights have a strong contrast; If the sky has haze, the sky will be more light. In terms of clouds, ideally a little cloud, but no dense clouds. With a slow shutter speed, the effect of cloud flow can also be captured.

The camera is set

This is a beginner, so I hope to let beginners to contact the night scene category, and then to explore, so the setting will be as simple as possible to introduce. To determine the Settings for each photo, consider the aperture value, shutter value, and ISO value.

The ISO

Let's start with ISO. Since we already use the foot frame, we won't make our photos blurry by clapping our hands. For this reason, we can simply set the ISO value to 100.

The aperture

Deciding aperture, generally considering the problem of depth of field, in the night, because the landscape was too far away from the camera, there is a lot of focus after the camera has been set to infinity, even after the scene before there are, but because the former scene also have a far distance, so even if use maximum aperture, the pictures from basically also won't fuzzy, but because of the existence of the horse, we don't have to worry about the problem of the shutter too slowly, so the aperture can still receive fine point to obtain a higher resolution, the smaller aperture, also help play out the limit of the lens quality. In terms of setting, it is recommended to consider setting between f/7.1-f/11. If other conditions need to be considered, such as wanting to lengthen the line of the street light, it can also be set to about f/16. If you still think it's hard to decide, you can just set the aperture to f/9, which is a very safe setting.

The shutter

Shutter is the most important consideration. Determine the brightness of the site environment and determine whether the building lights are too bright and too dark. At this time only depends on the experience of the photographer to decide, time in 5 seconds to 2 minutes is also available. This may sound complicated, but the success of this night shot depends largely on the shutter setting. It is suggested that you can decide a shutter value by yourself, after shooting, look at the photo finished products for reference, too light will slow down the shutter, too dark will lengthen the shutter, so practice, will soon know each night scene about how long exposure.

The other set

For the camera, you can also set the exposure delay mode (the name of Nikon) to reduce the vibration caused by the rising of the mirror.

In addition, the camera can also be turned on to reduce the noise of long exposure options. The longer the exposure time, the more noise there will be. This function is used to reduce the resulting noise. However, it should be noted that this function will be processed after each photo is taken.

In terms of white balance, if you don't know much about it, it is recommended to shoot the RAW file first, and then use the computer to adjust the white balance after shooting. The lighting in the night scene is unpredictable, and there is no set value. I am used to manually setting the white balance K number.

In terms of P/A/S/M mode, although many people are accustomed to shooting with aperture, it is recommended to choose M mode for urban night scenes. Each building as well as the comparison of the sky at night have different situation, so if the aperture prior to shoot, the camera may not be able to correctly judge the shutter values, and aperture priority to also won't set the shutter value of more than 30 seconds, you will only limits the filming, so, or directly select M mode, set the aperture and shutter values to compare safety, simple shutter is transferred to the Bilbo coordination with the shutter release for exposure.

There are no theorems or formulas in photography, floating frame canvas all of which must be tried out by us. Every scene is different, so no unique shooting method is possible. This article is only a reference, hoping to raise the interest of beginners in night shooting and solve simple shooting problems. After the night shot, you can study each set point again to get the effect you want.