How do you make a shot look like it was taken at night?
Okay, so I was watching a movie recently, and there was a night scene. The whole valley could be seen in light, and there were some stars as well, and the actors could be seen, but it just looked like...
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Difference in light between new moon night and adjacent nights
I want to photograph bioluminescence in a remote area without light pollution. A dark sky is key.The only light would be from the moon and the stars, so I'm aiming for the next new moon (fortunately in...
View ArticleHow do I get started with 'painting with light' photography?
Tunnels being naturally dark may not be the most intuitive choice for a place to take pictures. But I love the 'painting with light' work that artists such as 'Twin Cities Brightest' are putting out...
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What is this effect, with millions of coloured light dots surrounding people...
I found this picture:.What kind of technique is necessary to create such pictures?
View ArticleHow to photograph a couple exiting their wedding at night?
This is my first wedding season, and I'm mostly a natural light photographer. I'm starting to get weddings that end later in the evening. When it's really dark out, lenses obviously don't know what to...
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How do I get good colors when taking pictures in the city at night?
I'm very interested in doing night time shootings.I'm using Canon 5d3 with 85mm at f/1.2, and at iso 2000 I'm able to get exposure times around 1/150s-1/200s.However, the lighting in my city everywhere...
View ArticleHow to illuminate an outdoor night time portrait with a cityscape background?
I encountered this problem the other day at one of the many skybars in Bangkok. I wanted to take some photos of my friends enjoying their drinks, but the situation had a few challenges; the only light...
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How to take great night shots with a subject in the foreground and a...
I have Canon Rebel XS (EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Autofocus Lens). I have been trying to take decent night photographs for a while. But it seems to take a lot of effort. Can we take good night shots...
View ArticleI want to take photo of moon with my mobile camera?
I tried taking pic of moon with my mobile camera, i tried auto mode and manual mode also. but its not clear. what are different option or addition tool required.
View ArticleI'm trying to take a photo of the stars however it's either white or black
I have a Canon EOS 2000D with a Tamron AF 70-300mm, EFS 18-55mm and a 500mm & 1000mm manual lenses;I have it set on bulb for long exposure, F5.6 which is the smallest aperture, ISO I've tried...
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switched to RAW and seeing ugly light bands in Lightroom
I am used to working mostly with jpeg, but I switched to RAW and in my shoot today I see a lot of problems in night shots. notice how the purple sky has waves of color boundary rings. I am shooting...
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Why are my photo's not so sharp even when using a tripod?
I took the following photos yesterday to capture the shades of sunset skies. However, I am utterly disappointed with the sharpness of the overall pictures (areas in shadows particularly very soft) and...
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Circular Pattern in Night Sky Image
A few days ago I took a night sky image of the milky way with my XPERIA 1 II and wanted to take a closer look at the RAW file in Lightroom Mobile. When doing so, I realised a strange circular...
View ArticleLarge DOF in low light for portrait in front of a landscape?
I am using a Nikon D610 and mostly I can get nice landscape shots with long exposure (with f/8-f/11) range using a 35mm f/1.4 lens. However now my issue is, I want to take pictures of a person in front...
View ArticleNot able to manual focus in night for star photography
I was shooting at f4.5 shutter speed 30s for capturing stars in my photo but was not able to manual focus as we can't set the manual focus for stars.I am using a 18-55mm Nikkor lens, what I get after...
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Errant lights in long exposure at night
I've been trying to get some images of the milky way. I was is central Sardegna near some neolithic ruins as a backdrop. A few images had this odd squiggles of light. Not every frame has it.It's not...
View ArticleWhat materials absorb or block infrared wavelengths?
I'm not exactly doing pro photography here; please forgive me. My baby monitor is mounted in a corner. It shines bright IR at night, and the walls are highly reflective, and I can barely see into the...
View ArticleHow can I reduce the effect of sodium vapor street lights in night photography?
I would like to light buildings at night using torches etc. How do I reduce the sodium light (street light ) that is cast on it. Can I reduce it with a filter and if so which one?
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Why did my night pictures turned out so foggy, light or too bright?
I received my developed pictures and many of them are foggy. It seems that some shot with similar light is foggier than the others. Can it be that something went wrong in the development process, is it...
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Is there a way to get rid of this glowing effect?
I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of the glow around the tree in the bottom right.I've gotten as far as thinking it's some form of luminosity due to reflections at ground level (this is in my...
View ArticleAstrophotography - Image quality reduced after multiple long exposures
I'm currently using NIKON D5600 for my untracked astrophotography, and depends on the target I need to take up to 100 exposures of 15-20 seconds each.I have a manual shutter remote and I manually click...
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How can I create light trails without a blurry subject?
I would like to achieve this effect using my Nikon P510: Are there any suggestions or tips that would help me do that?
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What are these disks in my photo taken with the Tamron 10-24 lens?
I am starting to dabble in night photography, so I just bought a lens (Tamron 10-24) and checked it out last night. Please take a look at the photos and help me determine if I have now recorded UFO's...
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View ArticleHow can I use a Ricoh 35 FM film rangefinder to take photographs at night?
Recently I thrifted a cool little rangefinder camera: a Ricoh 35 FM. I am new to photography, and am planning on shooting in the night. However, the camera does not have as many settings to change as...
View ArticleHow to create a fake long exposure from a bunch of frames
I made several frame screenshots at one angle and I want to join them into a long exposure shot similar to those pictures of night traffic. Like this example.But I can't get my head around, how to...
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How do the stars in this photo appear without star trails even at a long...
I found an image of the night sky taken by James Sainty at http://500px.com/photo/11615131.It has the following EXIF metadata:Camera Canon 5D Mk IILens Canon 16-35mm LFocal Length 16mmShutter Speed 140...
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Visible discrete gradient transitions of glow on photos with long exposure
On my new Nikon D7100, when I set a longer exposure, instead of smooth transition, I can see the transition steps. It can bee seen on attached photo (the rough gradient in the sky)Is it a problem of...
View ArticleHow can I take good photos of stars out of a cockpit window using the Samsung...
I am an airline pilot and as the winter is coming and we get nice clear nights I am seeing masses of stars out the flight deck windows. At night we have dim lighting in the flight deck and when I try...
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