Night shooting help..

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Hi guys ive recently had a nikon d40 and am slowly getting better every day. I took it out the other day for some night photogrphy, whilst i was indoors it was getting focus and capturing brilliantly but when i tried to shoot a tower outside which was about 10metres away, it wouldn't take. Im using shutter priority mode at the moment ive tried it up to shutter speed 30seconds and no joy. Hope you can help as i always seem to struggle if objects are in the distance.
 
What ISO are you using? And what aperture setting?
 
ISO is 100 and apeture is automatic is so im not certain, this where im going wrong? cheers for the reply
 
You'll need to up the ISO, have a play about with the settings until you get what you're looking for. This helps to let more light into the camera, and also you'll be looking for quite a lkow aperture which also lets more light into the camera.
 
if your having trouble focusing at night try and find somthing on what your focusing on that is contrasting and it can grab focus on

I know I can sometimes have trouble foxusing when shooting at night as well with my D80 but easily fixed by focusing on something else and changing to Manual Focus once you've got what you want and then move back to where you want to take the photo again (if that makes any sense)
 
How dark was the tower ?

Mine sometimes hunts for something to focus on at night outside,
have you tried changing the AF-Area Mode to see if that helps ?

For long exposures i set it up in manual and try different timed
exposures. Or try apperture priority but i prefer to do it in manual.

I take it you have got a remote for it ?
 
One of those really bright 6 led torches can come in handy if you're not miles away from your target. Shine it on where you are trying to focus and it'll lock on 99% of the time.
 
I would think that you will need to focus manualy, for this you will need to set the lens and the camera to manual focus, I still get the focus wrong some times its trial and error in situations where there is not enough visable light. There are a lot of guys on here that have helped me understand all the factors I needed to take into account. I'm sure someone will be along before I get to add some links...................:exit:
 
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