How to shoot night scenes

The first point: the night scene must be a tripod.

Tripod can be said to be a very important equipment when shooting night scenes, and it must be stable enough to maximize efficiency, otherwise it will be more blurred than holding! Tripod can be widely used to put cameras, external flashlights and even personal items, but the most important thing is that it can slow down the shutter and achieve the following effects:

You can use a small aperture: a small aperture can deepen the depth of field and make the landscape clearer and sharper.

Reduce the ISO value: The higher the ISO value, the stronger the noise. If you can use low ISO, the photo quality will be improved immediately! Noise is obvious in dark light, so it is more important to use tripod to reduce ISO when shooting night scenes.

Shooting motion: With a slow shutter (such as 10 seconds, minutes, or even hours), we can record the track of light with photos, which is very useful when shooting car tracks, star tracks, clouds or graffiti.

Make the reflection on the water more prominent: Sometimes when shooting by a lake or in an environment with water, we can use a slow shutter to remove the waves on the water to make the reflection more prominent.

The second point: make good use of manual mode (M mode) to adjust the aperture shutter.

Automatic or semi-automatic modes (such as aperture priority, shutter priority, etc.) are not recommended. When shooting between scenes, because there is usually not much light at night, and the camera's metering system is easily tricked into increasing exposure, black objects turn gray after overexposure. Therefore, when shooting night scenes, we often use M-Mode to adjust the aperture, shutter and ISO value ourselves. So how should we start shooting? Try it according to the following simple formula!

First put the camera on the tripod;

Adjust the shooting mode of the camera to the aperture prerequisite mode (A mode /Av mode) ... Yes, it is the aperture prerequisite, because in this step, we have to do photometry before we can get a reference value;

Turn off automatic ISO (if set);

Set the aperture to any one of f/8-f/ 1 1, and set ISO to the lowest value, such as ISO 100 or 200;

About composition, then find out the shutter value given to you by the camera. In this step, you will have a combination of aperture, shutter and ISO, such as: aperture f/8, shutter for 5 seconds, ISO100; ;

Set the shooting mode of the camera to manual mode (M mode), input the aperture, shutter and ISO value at hand, and shoot after composition.

Watch the pictures taken. If you want to make the photo brighter, you can slow down the shutter (or increase the aperture), and if you want to be darker, you can adjust the shutter (or decrease the aperture).

Using manual mode, you can master the brightness and trajectory effect of photos more effectively, which is a step further from professional photos!

The third point: Black Card Dafa

When shooting at night, if a part of the picture is bright, such as the lights of buildings, the afterglow of the sky, or even the moon, the details will be lost when shooting directly because of the big difference in light, and usually the ground will be very dark. At this time, you can use a simple "shaking black card" technique to balance the light difference.

Point 4: Photo Palette-White Balance Settings

Setting the white balance when shooting at night can make the photos bring completely different effects:

Changing the white balance will change the color of the photo. For example, if you want to make the night scene colder and weirder, you can adjust the white balance to low k or tungsten lamp.