City Night Scene Shooting Raiders Night Scene Photography Skills

City night scenes have always been a favorite of photographers, but shooting night scenes is a test of photography technology, because there is insufficient light at night, and it takes a long time to take good photos. If you want to shoot the night scene and don't know how to shoot it, then this guide will tell you in detail!

Use a tripod If you want to take a long-exposure night scene, a tripod is an indispensable helper. Speaking of tripods, ordinary cheap tripods are no good. I had the painful experience that my camera was blown down by a strong wind when shooting with a cheap tripod. So you must have a solid and reliable tripod to help you shoot. If your tripod has a device that can adjust the tightness of the foot tube, check whether these parts are stable before shooting. In addition, when connecting Allegro, remember to tighten the screws connecting the camera with coins, which is necessary when you use telephoto lens for vertical shooting, because the weight of the camera will make Allegro slide down from the pan/tilt. The stronger your tripod is, the more it can support your camera. Please make sure your tripod is stable before shooting.

Stabilize the center of gravity Many tripods have a weight hook at the end of the center shaft, which allows you to hang heavy objects such as camera bags on it. When you encounter bad weather such as strong wind, the strong wind may bring great vibration to your tripod at any time. The best solution is to hang your camera bag on the central axis and let it touch the ground, so as to minimize the shaking.

Seeking asylum, whether shooting star tracks in the wild or shooting car tracks in the center of urban streets, needs to find a sheltered position to block the air impact caused by strong winds and roaring cars.

Turn off the lens anti-shake and body anti-shake of the anti-shake camera to minimize the jitter of hand-held shooting. But when you shoot with a tripod, remember to turn off this function to reduce unnecessary picture blur caused by factory anti-shake during working hours.

Looking for Lighting Nowadays, most compact cameras or SLR cameras have a keen focusing system, but they all need enough working brightness. If you have enough brightness when shooting, your camera can automatically focus smoothly. However, when there is no light at night, there will often be problems in focusing, which does not mean that focusing in a bright place is enough, because many times the target you want to shoot is not necessarily a luminous object, so you still need enough ambient lighting to illuminate your subject, such as using a flash to assist shooting.

The timing of shooting night scenes is actually to wait until it is completely dark; After sunset 15 to 45 minutes is usually the best time to shoot bright colors with sharp contrast between cold and warm; Because this period of time can shoot the blue effect of the sky, it is called sunset blue, so usually the sunset and the night scene are taken together, so we should grasp the time.

Methods and skills of night scene shooting ① Small aperture shooting.

Shoot with a small aperture, because the depth of field of the small aperture is smaller, so that distant scenery or objects will not be blurred. Stars with small apertures are more prominent, and there will be unexpected stars when there are fireworks or lights gathering.

Use the manual exposure mode to set ISO to the lowest value, set the aperture size, and use the camera display to enlarge the focus by 10 times to see if the focus is clear; According to the environment at that time, check the shutter speed on the camera display. The combination of different exposures in the scene is also different.

1. Try to shoot in raw format, so the width will be larger later.

2. Using timed shooting or cable release shooting can reduce unnecessary vibration to the machine.

Camera settings Camera settings are mainly in three aspects: exposure, focusing and white balance.

1, exposure

The light at night is weak and there are many dark parts, so it is easy to overexpose according to the results of camera photometry. It is suggested to reduce the exposure compensation of 1 appropriately.

Among the three elements of exposure, the aperture depends on the shooting effect.

It is suggested that the sensitivity should be set in the range of 100~ 1600 when shooting at night, and the high-end camera can be relaxed to 100~6400, and the noise performance in this range is tolerable.

Finally, the shutter speed, because the sensitivity improvement is limited, the aperture can not be further improved when it is adjusted to the maximum aperture, so we can only slow down the shutter speed and increase the exposure. Especially shooting large scenes with large depth of field, small aperture and low sensitivity can only slow the shutter speed to the extreme.

2. Focus

Focusing in low light is easy to make mistakes. It is recommended to focus MF manually here, especially when shooting scenery. Manual focus adjustment of the clear range is the most accurate.

3, white balance

It is generally blue and cold at night, and the lights are generally warm. The contrast between cold and warm is more emotional.

It is suggested to select automatic white balance to check the color temperature value after shooting, and then adjust it to the custom color temperature K value. Reducing the color temperature by about 500 will have different effects.