Night photography

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Was wondering if anyone had any tips on shooting at night as that's the only time I usuhave free to snap pics and having some trouble I have a fuji xa2 18-55 mm lens should I use a longer exposure how long? Do I up the iso? And tips would be appreciated thank you :)
 
That's about as vague as you could possibly be :lol: what kind of things to you want to shoot?

There's not a lot I've not shot at night at some point so more than happy to help you but need some idea what your thinking of shooting...you could also check out some of my guides linked in my signature if they cover some of the things your interested in
 
City night scapes and buildings possibly some reflections on the water maybe lol thanks for ur reply
 
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City night scapes and buildings possibly some reflections on the water maybe lol thanks for ur reply
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Okay so first of all the most important thing in my opinion for what your after is to get out if possible in the blue hour (roughly the first hour post sunset) while there's still some colour in the sky to keep it interesting..I've always found its best to try and balance your exposure so that your just about starting to over expose the windows in cityscapes as that way you'll still be able to recover them perfectly but will also have just about enough information in the rest of the scene to recover sufficient details, remembering of course it's night so your going to have dark areas so don't get too obsessed with exposing for everything keep it looking as natural as possible

From a tech standpoint, you'll be on a tripod so if your lens or camera has it turn off any image stabilisation, if it has it mirror lock up can be advantageous in this type of photography, though you don't have that issue if your mirrorless naturally

You'll find your shooting at about f/8-10 usually for this type of photography, basically shoot at what ever is the most sharp region on your lens, as you'll be shooting at a wide angle you have to worry a lot less about DoF

Stick to your base ISO it keeps things at clean as possible

Well not mandatory, I'd always advise shooting RAW it will give you so much more latitude to recover shadows and highlights in your processed image

Oh and get yourself a remote/release for your camera it will make the long exposures you need to shoot so much easier as you'll likely find you spend a lot of your time shooting full manual/bulb mode
 
Welcome to the forum Elliott. Some good advice from Mat, you can learn a lot from him.
Look forward to seeing some night shots.

Your uncle Andrew.
 
Found this and although only general advice thought it was quite useful

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well overall you've done okay for your first attempt..you've actually done very well on that first one you've lot a little detrail in the highlights but not a massive amount...something that I neglected and should have mentioned was white balance, this can be very challenging in an urban environment because of the different light colours/temperatures..generally you'll normally need to be on the cooler end of the scale, if you want to go automatic generally you'll be not far off by selecting tungsten thought a custom white balance is usually the best option...this is another case of where shooting RAW will be a massive help as you can completely tailor you white balance in editing
 
I shot in raw and jpeg so I can edit the pics later on will find some software to play with :) yeah really pleased with the results last night thank you :)
 
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