How to shoot blockbusters at night

How to take great photos at night:

1. Determine the type of light at night. You will encounter various lighting conditions at night, whether it is fluorescent lamps or cold-toned light. These lights that may cause color temperature differences are a problem that need to be solved as far as photographers are concerned. In the early days of filmmaking, even masters found it challenging to counteract these lighting conditions with color because it was difficult to expose the meter correctly. In today's digital world, we also find that when taking pictures at night, the noise caused by high sensitivity is also a challenge.

2. Equipment preparation. If you want to shoot a blockbuster at night, keep your LED lights and lenses ready for use. Don’t delay and waste time thinking about what lenses to use and how to compose your shots. Another wonderful thing about the human eye is that it quickly adapts to these harsh low-light conditions, and after a while you will be able to see a lot.

3. Choose a good theme and composition. How many photos you take of a particular subject, day or night, says a lot about your type of photography. Putting your subject into the shot properly can take your composition skills to the next level. Poor lighting conditions at night can be difficult to adapt to, but one should believe that anything shot during the day can also be shot at night, and many lighting conditions must be adapted to make it more interesting.

4. Grasp the focus. The most difficult thing about focus is getting the right focus and the right composition when you've already aimed at the right subject in the right frame. This autofocus is quite feature-rich, with more than a dozen points to capture just the right spot, but it may not help in poor lighting conditions. One must also learn the art of manual focusing. Try higher ISOs, do more handheld exposure tests, focus perfectly, and keep taking pictures.

5. Adjust the aperture. As we all know, the maximum aperture can provide more light, higher shutter speed, thereby reducing photo blur and getting normal photos. When planning long exposures or taking time-lapse photos, please adjust the aperture parameters accordingly.

6. Adjust the dynamic range. Different from natural light during the day, there are various light sources everywhere, which can produce different dramatic scenes according to different light sources. What is dynamic range? It is the difference between the brightest whites and the darkest blacks in a scene. Shooting just in moonlight may not give you a lot of movement, it's faint compared to daylight, so long exposures will create subtle shadows that give it some movement.