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Summary: Low-light photography is a type of photography that uses an extremely low light source to capture images, landscapes, sports and other photos in dark settings. Learn about shutter speeds and camera noise with regard to low-light photography using tips from a professional photographer in this free video on photography.
Anthony Maddaloni is a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. A New York native, he moved to Austin 10 years ago after graduating from Purchase College in New York. He has...read more
"My name is Anthony Maddaloni and I'm going to be talking about low-light photography. Now low light photography is any type of photography that you're going to use where your light source is extremely low. Now this could be at night, landscapes, could be sports photography. Low light photography is a type of photography where you're going to need a high ASA to capture that image properly. Now by that I mean an ASA that is at least a thousand or higher. And if you're not using a low, or high ASA, excuse me, you're going to be using a tripod in order to capture the image, thus letting enough light to light it. So those are a couple of things that you want to think about about low light photography. Now don't get me wrong, you don't need to use a really high ASA all the time. You can get away with long shutter speed. You might use a shutter speed of up to perhaps, you know, five minutes. I've seen people use shutter speeds of a half hour or more because they were shooting in extremely low light. And again, it's something that you can really let you creative side and your imagination run wild with. Low light can be absolutely beautiful if used right, but it's up to you as a photographer to know the limitations of what your film or your digital camera can do. Now with low light photography in certain digital cameras, you get a lot of noise, and with technology lately, you're able to get less noise, but you're going to pay more for that camera because it has a high ASA, low noise ratio. Now you might pay as mush as two thousand, maybe even as much as five thousand for that camera, so you might want to really think about it before you do something like that. So those are some of the ways that you can use low light in your photography."
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soonlar said
on 11/23/2008 ASA setting is for film and ISO would be for digital cameras
kvocal said
on 2/12/2009 Soonlar you are not incorrect, but your statement is not 100% accurate. ISO covers both film and digital. Digital uses an ISO equivalent and the equivalent is often times not accurate. What is listed as an ISO 100 on a digital camera is often closer to a true ISO of 120.
Please refer to Wikipedia for more info. "The ASA (American Standards Association) photographic exposure system became the basis for the ISO film speed system, currently used worldwide (ISO 5800:1987)."