How to shoot the night scene, Nikon SLR camera, d6 10.

Because the light at night and during the day is completely different, and the light at night is very complicated. In addition to the light in the night sky itself, there are all kinds of sparks in the city. Many friends who play SLR are interested in how to shoot night scenes, but this problem is also a headache!

How do SLR cameras shoot night scenes?

1. How to prevent film sticking: You must have a tripod, because the light is insufficient at night and the exposure time is long, and it is difficult to achieve the effect of horizontal placement when holding it. If you want to avoid the rejection rate of photos, it is a basic condition to bring a tripod at night.

2. Night scene aperture application: The aperture application of night scene shooting is the same as that of daytime. For clearer imaging, you can use F 10 or above, and if you want to highlight the theme, you can use F2.8-F5.6.

3. Shutter application: put the camera on the tripod head, adjust the aperture of the camera to the required aperture after framing, and set the shutter response time according to the automatic adjustment of the camera. Generally, it is appropriate to press the shutter for about 2- 10 second.

4. You can also use the remote shutter to operate.

The following six steps will help you take a beautiful night view.

Step 1: Switch to manual exposure mode. Manual mode allows you to control the shutter speed of 10 to 30 seconds at will. You can make an overall exposure by changing the aperture, or use the B-door for a longer exposure.

Step 2: Set the low-sensitivity ISO.

Choose the lowest ISO, so that you can get enough shutter speed.

Original format of shooting

Shoot RAW file format, which allows you to fine-tune digital darkroom exposure and white balance to achieve high-quality images.

Reduce noise.

Turn on the camera's noise reduction function (which is available in most digital SLR), which will help you get a less noisy image.

Reduce vibration

Turn on the pre-lifting function of the reflector of your camera to avoid unnecessary camera vibration caused by the reflector during shooting.

Use cable to release.

Cable release can be used to help the shooting of door B and keep the camera stable.

Night shooting also pays attention to the shooting location.

Do you still have to pay attention to the choice of location when shooting at night? The answer is of course yes! It can be said that dazzling lighting at night is the premise of shooting at night. Without lights or with few lights, objects cannot be displayed or displayed clearly. With enough light, not only can the object appear layered, but also the picture can be brighter and clearer. So it is very important to choose a suitable shooting location.

Night shooting equipment is a bit particular.

Although any digital camera can shoot night scenes, the different equipment ultimately determines the different film effects. First of all, there must be a digital camera that provides aperture priority, shutter priority and exposure compensation. Because the surrounding light is easy to interfere with the shooting effect, or even form a light spot, the hood of a digital camera can easily solve the above problems. If there is no hood, you can also temporarily block it with a larger notebook or other objects.

In addition, most night shots require long exposure, and hand-held shooting is basically impossible, so a tripod is needed to fix the camera. If the camera is equipped with a cable release or a remote control, it is easier to take clear film (if neither is available, you can try to use the camera's self-timer function). For example, Olympus 5050 comes with this gadget, which will be very useful in night shooting. For beginners, in the absence of a tripod, you can choose a railing on the roadside or a half-high fence to fix the camera according to local conditions. When there is nothing to rely on, you can try shooting with high sensitivity and large aperture.

Practical skills of night shooting

At present, many high-end digital cameras provide shooting modes of P (automatic), A (aperture priority), S (shutter priority) and M (manual). In addition, most digital cameras provide scene shooting modes, and the most common modes are night scene mode and macro mode. For beginners, shooting with a digital camera with night shooting mode is the most convenient and effective way. If your camera does not provide scene shooting mode, you should pay attention to the following aspects when shooting:

Aperture and shutter

Generally speaking, except for special needs, we all like to use a smaller aperture value (about F8 to 1 1) to increase the exposure time. Smaller aperture can make the distant view and the close view equally clear and detailed, especially the neon signs in the shop window can be clearly displayed, otherwise the neon signs will form a mass of light and look blurred. Interestingly, as long as the exposure time is long enough, pedestrians on the road will not appear in the photo (because the crowd is moving, the figure of people will become inconspicuous after long exposure), while cars driving on the road will form the shadow of lights (aperture value F7, exposure time 12 seconds, ISO value 160). If you want to focus on the crowd in the night scene, you have to use a larger aperture (F5.6 or so, which will blur the background) or use high sensitivity (ISO) to improve the shutter speed.

Perform accurate photometry

I believe that the most difficult thing to shoot at night is metering. When shooting a long-distance night scene, the black sky will affect the photometric reading of the camera and make the photo overexposed. In addition, if the shooting is influenced by spotlights or other strong lights, the photos will be underexposed to a certain extent. Most digital cameras are equipped with a variety of metering modes, so we should choose the corresponding metering mode according to the actual situation. Because different metering modes will directly affect the exposure accuracy of photos. In order to shoot a charming night scene, it is best to make one or two exposure compensation adjustments when shooting. If you use shutter priority or aperture priority mode to shoot, there will be overexposure in many cases, so how to adjust the exposure compensation value will have to be tried by everyone.

How to use white balance

When shooting city night scenes, the setting of white balance is very important. At night, incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps, mercury lamps and other artificial light sources with different color temperatures are often used in urban streets and other places. Different settings of white balance will have a great influence on the tone of the picture, especially when shooting with automatic white balance. Due to the change of composition and different light sources, the tone of the picture will change greatly, and it is difficult to obtain the ideal tone, so it is best to set the white balance manually when shooting at night.

If you shoot a night scene under a street lamp, it is best to set the white balance in sunshine mode in order to get a warm tone effect. Because the sunshine mode emphasizes the warm color of orange under this light source condition, the picture has a fairy-tale dreamy atmosphere, which is much better than the automatic white balance shooting.

When shooting night scenes, set the white balance to incandescent mode. The white balance will control the red tone of the light, and the picture will become cold tone, which can basically reproduce the original color of the night scene.

Similarly, you can also set the white balance to sunshine mode when shooting various shapes of lights in streets, squares in front of shops and other places at night. Sunshine mode can emphasize orange, make the picture warm and make the atmosphere at night strong. If you shoot in incandescent lamp mode, the warm color of incandescent lamp will be controlled, and the picture looks a little pale and lacks the atmosphere of night. The light picture taken in automatic white balance mode is very clear, but the atmosphere at night is weak.

In addition to shooting street scenes, people often shoot people in the background of street scenes. When shooting people at night, the first thing to pay attention to is what kind of light source the subject is in, and set the white balance correctly according to the light source. Generally speaking, when shooting people at night, the white balance is basically set to sunshine mode, especially in winter, the picture will be warmer. If it is set to incandescent mode, although people's skin color and clothes color are normal, the picture is slightly cool. If the automatic white balance is set when shooting people under electric light source, the picture will have a little red tone, and the automatic white balance will automatically adjust other light sources in the background, so the tone of the whole picture is relatively gentle.

When shooting the night scene with mercury light, the white balance should be adjusted to incandescent light mode, with green tone as the main tone, and the sky and fluorescent lights in the picture are blue tone. Therefore, if you want to emphasize the cool color, set the incandescent lamp mode with white balance under the condition of mercury lamp lighting source, and the picture effect is remarkable. If the automatic white balance mode is set, the green tone of the mercury lamp will be controlled, and the picture will be slightly yellow, lacking the unique atmosphere under the illumination of the mercury lamp.

In addition, before nightfall, you can set the white balance in fluorescent light mode, so that the picture can get magenta tone, and the picture has a strong dusk atmosphere.

Focus in the night scene

Because it is difficult for ordinary digital camera focusing sensors to focus on scenes with low contrast and low brightness accurately, when focusing on night scenes, we should focus on bright scenes as much as possible, and then lock the focal length for composition. Of course, you can also switch to manual focusing and use LCD to see the focusing effect. Roughly estimate the distance between the scene and the camera, and then select the appropriate focal length through the numerical display of LCD.

In addition to the above aspects, it is best to avoid using flash when shooting night scenes, which will destroy the atmosphere of the scene, and the general random flash will not play much role in shooting night scenes. If you want to shoot a good night scene film, you should not only shoot more, but also watch other people's films and learn shooting skills and methods from them.