Not much to say, it is hard to shoot a night time photo, at least for me. Especially the weather here, it was so cold outside and freezes my brain out and that’s the fun part. My hands got freeze after an hour shooting Purdue University’s photos. Anyway, I satisfied my work.
So here’s the tips, wear glove whenever you are outside, bring along “StarBucks’s” Mocha with ya and remember to say wassup to the one who walking by.
Shooting at night is nothing but stabilization. I don’t think there is a man can stop shaking his hand even a bit, at least I could not. It’s a good practice here, to reduce the blurriness in your picture try not to shake too much obviously and the importance of holding your breath. This is a good practice for a photographer to shoot a good picture in a room that without a bounce flash. As you read until here, you shall notice I have not reach the point yet. Yes holding breath is not everything and I shall tell you that Tripod is the boss here. A good tripod really did his job for night shooting. I myself using a lower grade tripod and it seem to me that there is still some tiny vibration in the photo. Wind would be one of the problems because the tripod of mine is light enough to blow off. Next, try not to touch your tripod when you are shooting if there is no wind.
I usually use slower shutter speed when playing around with the pictures. You probably want to let more light goes into your Camera, so a slower shutter would work fine here unless you saved the tripod’s bill. When you are shooting let say a building where the number of lights is limited and even the light are dim, there would not be a problem but if there is a bright lamp-post next to the building, it will definitely hurts the picture. Let say if 20 percents of light from the building goes into the Cam, the bright lamp-post may already delivered twice as much as the light from the building which is 40 percent approximately. By then, the main character in your picture would be a lamp-post instead of the building because the lamp-post will be very bright and your building is like a background. So if you’re looking to shoot a lamp-post, you would not put a sport-light shooting toward the Cam. It’s all depends on the brightness of your main target.
Aperture, I don’t really care when I shoot at night unless you want Bokeh effect. Bokeh effect could be very unique because you can shoot stars all around you. Since I have not get a good F1.4 prime lens, I do not want to talk much here.
