Low-Light Photography Tips

Video Transcript

"This is Anthony and we're going to be talking about low light photography tips today. Photo opportunities don't always present themselves in the most beautiful natural light. The photo Gods just don't work that way. Especially whatever you're trying to do, whatever type of your subject matter is in. It could be sports, you could be photographing live music, your lighting might not be so great. So there is two things that you want to keep in mind when your doing this type of photography. For digital it is noise. When you photograph with a high ASA, you have what's called noise. It almost looks like this pattern surrounding your image that does not look visually good. With film you get grain. Very similar to noise but in some ways I think that grain is a little bit more appealing than actual noise digitally. So the two things that you want to think about are your ASA setting and how high or how low that is. It's really going to affect your image. So I like shooting with a type of film that's called 3200 speed film. That is film. If I am shooting digitally, I like to shoot with a high end professional camera with a professional chip in it. Right now Sony is manufacturing a chip that is extremely high ASA with very little noise. So if your a professional photographer or some one who thinks their going to work with a lot of low light, that is something that you might want to look in to. Those are the two examples of photographing in low light that I like to use. The other thing is your really going to probably need a tripod if your shooting with a shutter speed below thirty in some really low light. I know some really talented people that can get away with hand holding at that low of shutter speed but it is extremely difficult. Your image a lot of times is soft. So those are a couple of examples of using low light in photography."