Night Photography:2 - In the street.Night Photography :2 - In the street
A tutorial request
This tute will cover available light, hand held, night street photography
(1) Pre requisites
- be familiar with your camera and its operation. You may be making adjustments in the dark.
- Be able to read and understand the histogram. The pic on the back of your camera is not a good guide for a correctly exposed image.
- Be able to use your camera in manual mode.
(2) Shooting:
If I am using an image stabilised lens it will be on.
I tend to shoot at fairly wide angles.
Normally I will set the camera aperture wide open with a fairly high ISO (800+) and take what ever shutter speed I can get (preferably => 1/15 second).
If I find that I have plenty of light the I will increase the shutter speed and then think about shooting at a smaller aperture and/or decreasing the ISO (especially if I am at a very high ISO (3200?))
Now days will usually be shooting in aperture priority (possibly with a bit of exposure compensation dialed in) or manual mode, manual focus if the camera has trouble focussing, and in RAW.
Some examples (larger pics are on my flickr stream)
(1) The blue hour can be a great time to shoot.
Here I cheated and placed the camera on top of a traffic light controller box, for stability.
Camera Canon EOS 5D + Canon 24-105 F4 L IS lens
Exposure 0.5
Aperture f/4.0
Focal Length 24 mm
ISO Speed 100
(2) Hand held whilst on vacation.
Canon EOS350D, 17-85 IS lens. 1/10 @ F6.3, ISO 1600
(3) Hand held whilst on vacation
Camera Canon EOS 5D + Canon 24-105 F4 L IS lens.
Exposure 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture f/4
Focal Length 40 mm
ISO Speed 1600
(4)Again whist on vacation.
Canon 350D with 17-85 IS lens
ISO 1600 1/13 @ F5.6
Security; always be aware of your surroundings and take care whem shooting.
A tutorial request
This tute will cover available light, hand held, night street photography
(1) Pre requisites
- be familiar with your camera and its operation. You may be making adjustments in the dark.
- Be able to read and understand the histogram. The pic on the back of your camera is not a good guide for a correctly exposed image.
- Be able to use your camera in manual mode.
(2) Shooting:
If I am using an image stabilised lens it will be on.
I tend to shoot at fairly wide angles.
Normally I will set the camera aperture wide open with a fairly high ISO (800+) and take what ever shutter speed I can get (preferably => 1/15 second).
If I find that I have plenty of light the I will increase the shutter speed and then think about shooting at a smaller aperture and/or decreasing the ISO (especially if I am at a very high ISO (3200?))
Now days will usually be shooting in aperture priority (possibly with a bit of exposure compensation dialed in) or manual mode, manual focus if the camera has trouble focussing, and in RAW.
Some examples (larger pics are on my flickr stream)
(1) The blue hour can be a great time to shoot.
Here I cheated and placed the camera on top of a traffic light controller box, for stability.
Camera Canon EOS 5D + Canon 24-105 F4 L IS lens
Exposure 0.5
Aperture f/4.0
Focal Length 24 mm
ISO Speed 100
(2) Hand held whilst on vacation.
Canon EOS350D, 17-85 IS lens. 1/10 @ F6.3, ISO 1600
(3) Hand held whilst on vacation
Camera Canon EOS 5D + Canon 24-105 F4 L IS lens.
Exposure 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture f/4
Focal Length 40 mm
ISO Speed 1600
(4)Again whist on vacation.
Canon 350D with 17-85 IS lens
ISO 1600 1/13 @ F5.6
Security; always be aware of your surroundings and take care whem shooting.
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