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hi all
being invited the leeds to photograph the street christmas lights
but i have not photographed night scenes before
please can you give me some tip on setting
neil
 
When are you going? The best thing I can advise would be to get outside now and practice in normal street light conditions.

Use Aperture priotity, set around f/8 or f/11, iso around 200 and whatever shutter speed the camera says.

Try that as a basic template and have a play around with it.

You haven't said what camera you have, what lenses you have, if you have a tripod or how good your basic knowledge is of photography and of the exposure triangle.
 
What is wrong with the education system in this country when somebody cannot put together a simple statment. Regarding the post, photographing lights can be a bit tricky to avoid flare around the light. Oh by the way this will be my last post.
 
classcams said:
What is wrong with the education system in this country when somebody cannot put together a simple statment. Regarding the post, photographing lights can be a bit tricky to avoid flare around the light. Oh by the way this will be my last post.
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probably the same education system that ensured your spelling wasn't quite right ;)
 
classcams said:
What is wrong with the education system in this country when somebody cannot put together a simple statement? Regarding the post, photographing lights can be a bit tricky to avoid flare around the light. Oh, by the way, this will be my last post.
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Love it when the spelling police wander by and FAIL. :clap:
 
Harvey_nikon said:
When are you going? The best thing I can advise would be to get outside now and practice in normal street light conditions.

Use Aperture priotity, set around f/8 or f/11, iso around 200 and whatever shutter speed the camera says.

Try that as a basic template and have a play around with it.

You haven't said what camera you have, what lenses you have, if you have a tripod or how good your basic knowledge is of photography and of the exposure triangle.
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:agree: Without knowing what type of camera you have it is hard to advise. You may only have a point and shoot with little to no manual control.
 
Back to the point. I have not gone out deliberatly to shoot Christmas light but did read an interesting article which went something like this :- Don't wait for darkness, the best time to photograph the light is at dusk when the night sky still has some light in it.
I did shoot some light this weekend and flare is the main problem, to bring the lights back to being visible with a degree of detail I had to back off on the brightness slider which generally meant everything else disappeared into the blackness. So my guess would be to use the 1 hour or less of dusk.
 
ok
as regards the camera
pentax k200 and k20
lenses sigma 150-500, 17-70
pentax da18-55,55-300 da* 50-135 f2.8
pentax 100 f2.8 macro
neil
 
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