How To Take Night Photos

Video Transcript

" Hello my name is Chris Conklin on behalf of expertvillage.com. Nighttime shots, those can be very interesting, though typically they are going to require you to manually set to give you a longer shutter speed openings, so that lets more light in. If you take the speed too fast like in a daylight it is going to take the shutter open it and close it real quickly while at nighttime shot dependent upon what you are looking for. It can open this the lens and then keep it open for a while several minutes you can leave it open almost indefinitely and then it finally closes, capturing all the specific little elements of the light that you are looking for especially if you are looking at the moon, the stars, far distance or just some kind of a glow effect. A lot of people will use this for special effects like sitting on a on overpass, on a freeway and allow the of lights of the cars to go by and that is where you see that streaming or that ghosting effect if you will of the cars and the lights as they are coming to or from away from him. Nighttime landscapes of city lights that is also another very popular feature of nighttime shooting and using the particular types of setting that go with that. Now, the important thing to remember is always play with your settings before you are ready to shoot. Make sure that you have taken several snapshots, you have looked at them, you have compared them and you have gotten exactly what it is you are looking for. After you have already shot through the picture, it is not the time to find out that you have your settings off center or your lighting is not working for you. Yes, it is possible that you can do a lot of corrections with a call and post or editing to correct a lot of those, but I am going to tell you it is a lot easier to do a little front end maintenance and management upfront and then have to just correct a little detail it any on the back end when you are done with your pictures. "