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Jamboree3
09-11-2009, 09:34 AM
I just got a digital camera and am interested in taking photographs at night, what are the best settings for night photography?
Justwait
09-11-2009, 11:09 AM
Most cameras have a night setting mode, which usually involves using a flash. However if you interested in taking long exposure photographs, a flash will not work. You need to set your camera to manual mode, and grab a tri-pod (to prevent camera shake) Now, the longer the shutter speed, the more light that will be let into your camera. For example if you are out in the middle of nowhere, taking a picture of the stars, you would want to leave your shutter open for as little as a minute, or as long as the entire night. If you are trying to capture the movement of cars in the city, you won't need that long of a shutter speed, 1/15 will work just fine.

Keep your ISO at as low a setting as you can, which is usually 200. The best time to shoot at night is as dusk or close to dawn before the sky is completely black.
Lindsay523
09-16-2009, 10:17 AM
One of my friends went out and tried that in the desert!
Justwait
09-17-2009, 01:37 PM
I love star trails, I think no matter the front drop, they are so beautiful.
Lindsay523
09-17-2009, 01:47 PM
I would really like to blow up one of those pictures and put it on my ceiling. :D
Justwait
09-17-2009, 01:52 PM
Yah me too.. Here is one I took quickly one night of the view from my balcony, I love the plane trail.
ashly744
09-21-2009, 09:27 AM
I also want to suggest using a camera remote. It can help even better to prevent camera shake, more so with the long exposures.
jbae3
09-21-2009, 03:00 PM
Yah me too.. Here is one I took quickly one night of the view from my balcony, I love the plane trail.

that's really cool! i really do love the plane trail! i really need to try night shooting sometimes i always thought it'd be too complicated to try!! thanks for sharing your work!
Justwait
09-22-2009, 01:20 PM
I always thought it was to complicated to try but it really really is not. And there is honestly so much more range you get as soon as you start playing around with long exposures.
KZizo
03-09-2011, 10:07 AM
I love taking pictures like these and yeah it really is not hard at all to do. I have quite a few photos I have taken myself.