Night Time Photography Continued

Ooooo look at this I'm getting on a schedule! I will be updating every wednesday! Unless I am deathly ill or I am traveling with the Doctor and the T.A.R.D.I.S. decides do drop me off 12 months from now... Anyway on to the post for today yay :D

So for today I am doing night time photography again! But this time it is more focused on long exposure and not necessarily on the light streaks and also using props.

The camera settings are pretty much similar to what I had mentioned before so the shutter on bulb so that I can control the time I want it to be exposed for, a decently high f-stop, and an ISO around 250.

Along with this shoot I also used props and a flash to achieve some images like this:

In this image what you need is:
-a table or something sturdy
-a glass (wine glasses look prettier in pictures to me)
-water
-a flash (I used my sb 900)
-a remote so you don't get shaking from pressing the shutter
-a camera (I dont know why I still post this...)

Ok so if you look close enough you can see that in the glass the bridge is reflected upside-down which is the reason for the water to be in the glass. for this particular image my settings are at ISO 500 f-stop 5.0 and shutter at 1/13.


The reason for the shutter being significantly slower than the rest of the images is due to the use of the flash, just long enough to have a flare but not too long to make the whole image go white. Since I wasn't using a really long shutter I dropped my f-stop to 5.0 which also gives me the depth of field that makes the bridge lights blurred. I upped my ISO too because I didn't want the background to get too dark.

The image above I didn't use the flash so my settings are more or less like my last post ISO 500, shutter 4 seconds and f-stop at 25.0. The ISO was kept at 500 because the f-stop was raised so high so I didn't want to lose any information.



Next up is more or less landscape photography with long exposure:

First up the settings in the camera are ISO 250, shutter 30 seconds, and f-stop 25.0. For this since my subject was really far away I used a high f-stop so nothing came out too blurry, my ISO back down to my golden ISO, and my shutter with my camera on bulb my shutter ended up at 30 seconds. For the shutter I recommend playing with it, you never know what you are going to get. Also on buildings like this they have lights of their own so the longer the exposure the more you will pick that up. Since you wont really know starting off what the lights will do it is good to experiment.

Remember my settings are always changeable not everything is set in stone, have fun on your own and just experiment, thats the beauty of having digital cameras you aren't waisting film! Last but not least i will leave you with this little nugget :D