Night photography offers photographers the chance to create mysterious, beautiful, and exciting images through the use of creative exposure. The following visual aid will give you an introduction to the basics of night photography and how to properly expose images in low light:
Night Photography Tips
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When taking photos at night it is important to make sure your exposure is correctly set and your camera is stable (preferably with a tripod). The most difficult part of night photography I had was properly framing a shot. Because of the lack of light and that I couldn’t really see what was in the viewfinder (for very dark shoots) there was a lot of guesswork.
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I have done night street photography before so this advice looks very helpful. I mostly do wedding photography and my go-to apertures are 2.0-5.6. And here I would even start from the aperture I don’t normally ever use :). Maybe I should go out and challenge myself a little.
I have trouble shooting even average images at night, when I do it has the grain effect. I will keep at it until I get better results.
To avoid grain (digital noise), use as low an ISO as possible (iso 100 or so), the longer the shutter is open, the more grain you will see.