How do I get these beautiful shots of sky-lit or dark themes. ? Mostly filled without a flash light as the flash is useless for building / landscape / sky / Horizont.treffen the Sony / Cannon camera as a reference. (I own a Sony dscpxx 2MP and 5MP guns S2 IS, if the help)
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I’m not familiar with your cameras, but if you can change your film speed (ISO/ASA), you should put it as high as possible (ie. 1600), and then open your f/stop or aperture as much as possible (ie. 4.5 or another low number), and get a tri-pod to keep your camera still for a long exposure (ie. set your shutter speed to 5 seconds or some other long setting). Check your light-meter as you make your settings.
Lighted sky? Lighted by what?
For stars, search answers – as this was covered last week.
Use a tripod, crank up the ISO (speed) and hope.
Night shot as you suggested for building will be tough unless they are extremly well lit since the minimum shutter speed on the canon is 15 seconds (didn’t check the Sony).
use the cannon the largernumber of pixels will give you less noise with a long exposure. incrase your film speed.use a tripod if you can.be patient some of the best light is just after sunset.have fun.
There is much to do with the CCD’s the camera has. If it has one, less light enters the camera. Or it is exposed in a less number of picture elements (pixels). If your camera has 3 CCD’s it will be capable of higher res images, thus giving you more “material” to work with.
Lets say you’ll have three times the stuff you have with just one CCD.
Then there are other factors, like if you open the iris too much, you’ll blow grain, horrible grain everywhere.
If you don’t get a correct exposure, you’ll get horrible zones where black is supposed to be. It will never be true black, it will be just an interpretation of black by the cameras CCD’s.
Then it depends also in what you shoot. It also depends on how many megapxls you have to work with. And then it also could depend on how you shoot. (where are the lights!)
First and most importantly, use a tripod. You will need to shoot a longer exposure than most people can hand hold without shaking.
Second, shot as close to dusk as possible. If you can shoot before the sky is pitch black then you will have a better chance of a good exposure.
If your camera has manaul settings then play around with the exposure time. Many of the night shots you see are taken with exposure times of several seconds (and possibly f-stops that aren’t wide open).
I too have struggled with getting good night shots and have had much better luck with the pictures I took in that short period at dusk.
A reference I would recommend is the Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby. It is easy to read and follow and not that expensive. It is broken down into a few pages for each shooting situation.
Most point and shoot digi’s don’t have a long exposure time. At most 3 seconds. Best bet you would need an SLR.
But there is some good advice on here so try all that first but I don’t know if you’ll end up getting the image you are looking for. SLR cameras even have a bulb feature (old models) newer models it comes up in the screen as a dash, at least mine does. You can then keep the shutter open for as long as you’d like. 30 sec or 15 minutes. I took a couple of night sky shots. I need to work on it more.
You can go to plenty of pawn shops and find film SLR’s for fairly cheap. If you really want to learn about photography I suggest you invest in one and a couple desent lenses like a wide angle.