Photography Skills How does Canon shoot night scenes?

The key points of Canon 600D night shooting skills are as follows:

1, using negative exposure compensation. When shooting night scenes, the reasonable exposure calculated by the camera is not necessarily a good exposure parameter. Photographers need to use their eyes to determine the exposure according to the actual effect, and use negative exposure compensation to shoot the brightness similar to the night scene, so that light and natural light can reach a good balance.

It is very useful to bring a flashlight. It will be convenient to have a small flashlight when shooting outdoors. It has a wide range of uses. It can be used to determine the position of the camera button, and it can also be used to illuminate the shooting scene to see if there is anything left behind.

3. Correct use of cable release. In order to suppress the camera shake when shooting night scenes, it is suggested to use the cable to release when pressing the shutter button instead of touching the camera directly. If there is no cable release at hand, you can also use the self-timer function instead. Setting the driving mode to delay the release of the shutter for 2 seconds can suppress the jitter caused by pressing the shutter button.

4. Select Av (Aperture Priority Automatic Exposure) mode or manual exposure mode. The shooting mode can be Av mode or manual exposure mode. When using Av mode, exposure compensation can be used to shoot scenes near night. When using manual exposure mode, the same effect can be achieved by adjusting the shutter speed.

When shooting through the window, the lens should be close to the glass window. If you shoot in an observatory with a glass window, you need to put the lens close to the glass in order not to shoot the reflection of the glass. Pay special attention to the people behind and the possible reflection of indoor lights.

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When shooting night scenes, you can use the real-time display function flexibly, but pay attention to the battery power. Manual focusing is a safer focusing method. Especially when shooting through glass, due to the influence of glass, autofocus may not be able to focus effectively. The way to focus safely is to use the real-time display function to focus manually.

The picture seen through the real-time display mode is the picture actually shot by the image sensor, and the photographer can directly observe the actual picture and zoom in for high-precision focusing, so the error is very small.

Only when focusing in real-time display mode, the LCD needs to be used all the time, and the battery consumption will be faster than expected. Therefore, when shooting in real-time display mode, it is recommended to prepare a spare battery.

References:

Canon official website-introduction of digital SLR camera-night shooting skills