Night Photography

10th March 2016 Final

Programme

• Kit

• Planning tips

• Tripod tips

• Camera setting tips

• What is possible?

• Oh dear ~ no tripod!

– tea break

• Practical session

What kit do you need?

Planning Tips

Tripod Tips

• Turn off Image Stabilisation

• Use a wired or wireless

remote

• if you have neither try

the self timer

Camera Settings

Mid-range often provides

the sweet spot

(say F/8 to F/16)

The area to experiment with!

(can be up to 30 seconds or

even a lot longer! )

Keep it low

(100?)

Camera Settings ~ Go Manual!

Exposure compensation scale

may help as an exposure guide

Allows you to decide

Aperture and Speed

Camera Settings ~ Aperture Priority

Set the aperture and let the camera

decide the speed

Camera Settings ~ Bulb

• Shutter remains open until

released

• Very effective for recording a

succession of fireworks or for

capturing star trails

• Why “Bulb”

• In the old days squeezing

an air bulb would open the

shutter, and releasing it

would close it

Camera Settings ~ Focus

Go for Manual Focus

Camera Settings ~ Other Tips

RAW provides more flexibility in

post production editing

Use AWB or just experiment!

What is possible?

Serenity

2 seconds @ F/7.1

14 mm on 14-45 kit lens, Lumix G1

ISO 100

Light Trails

8 seconds @ F/20

20mm on 14-42 kit lens, Lumix GX7

ISO 200

The passing of the day

15 sec @ F/25

70 mm lens on Nikon D80

ISO 800

Movement

30 seconds @ F/13

17mm on 14-45 kit lens, Lumix G1

ISO 100

Ghostly Happenings

• 5 sec at F/8

• 31 mm lens on

Nikon D80

• ISO 100

• Plus:- hand-

held flash gun

manually fired

November 5th

6 seconds @ F/11

14mm on 14-45 kit lens, Lumix G1

ISO 100

The Abstract

• Lens zoomed out whilst shutter open (and yes it is Big Ben!)

3 sec. F/8

18 mm lens on Nikon D80

ISO 100

Starburst on street lights

• Use a narrow aperture ~ F/16 or higher

This will also give a greater depth of field

Star Trails

• Very long shutter speeds (can be into hours!)

Noise can be a problem, thus many photographers merge multiple 30

second continous exposures Image by:- Lincoln Harrison of Australia

Compact Camera only?

Taken in “Scene Mode” on Lumix TZ18

No Tripod?

Hand hold, brace yourself and increase ISO!

1/20 sec @ F/4.0

18 mm on 14-42 kit lens, Lumix GX7

ISO 3200

17th March

Meet 19.30 hrs ~ Lower King Street Car Park, Berkhamsted