Urban Night photography - share you shots
Aug 7, 2015 4:28:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2015 4:28:07 GMT
Hi All,
A little while ago I shared an article on urban night photography subject ideas in this post. My suggestion was that we could start a thread to share our urban night photography shots and share the settings used, and the trails and tribulations we went through to get the shot (or not, as the case may be).
Night photography used to always scare me as I couldn't figure out how to achieve a clear sharp photo. After having owned my first DSLR for about a year I bit the bullet and attacked night/low light shots. I read everything there was to read about the subject just to try and learn from those that knew much more than myself about it. After a long time of trial and errors I managed to produce a shot that I was semi-happy with; the shot was almost tack sharp. Eureka! This encouraged me to keep trying. After many years of practicing I am still learning every time I shoot at night or during low light conditions. The shot below is one of a few that I am really happy with.
As you can tell, it was taken on the Las Vegas strip in January this year. I knew I wanted lots of night time shots of Vegas, after all, it is known for its neon lights. I usually never travel with a tripod (I know, I should especially as I own a lightweight travel tripod) as I find it quite restrictive and I usually have my husband who functions as my tripod. So you could say this shot was sort of hand held with a little shoulder support from the other half. The settings I used for this are: ISO 3200, exposure at 1/15 sec at f 5.6 with no flash. Post processing was all done in LR5; tweaking the clarity, vibrance, black clipping, a little noise reduction and a little sharpening.
This is probably one of my favourite shots from our trip to Las Vegas so far.
So, I hope you will share your night shots (urban or otherwise) with us and let us know the settings and the approach you took to get the shot. I hope we can try and support and learn from each other in something that I know a lot of people struggle with (myself included).
A little while ago I shared an article on urban night photography subject ideas in this post. My suggestion was that we could start a thread to share our urban night photography shots and share the settings used, and the trails and tribulations we went through to get the shot (or not, as the case may be).
Night photography used to always scare me as I couldn't figure out how to achieve a clear sharp photo. After having owned my first DSLR for about a year I bit the bullet and attacked night/low light shots. I read everything there was to read about the subject just to try and learn from those that knew much more than myself about it. After a long time of trial and errors I managed to produce a shot that I was semi-happy with; the shot was almost tack sharp. Eureka! This encouraged me to keep trying. After many years of practicing I am still learning every time I shoot at night or during low light conditions. The shot below is one of a few that I am really happy with.
As you can tell, it was taken on the Las Vegas strip in January this year. I knew I wanted lots of night time shots of Vegas, after all, it is known for its neon lights. I usually never travel with a tripod (I know, I should especially as I own a lightweight travel tripod) as I find it quite restrictive and I usually have my husband who functions as my tripod. So you could say this shot was sort of hand held with a little shoulder support from the other half. The settings I used for this are: ISO 3200, exposure at 1/15 sec at f 5.6 with no flash. Post processing was all done in LR5; tweaking the clarity, vibrance, black clipping, a little noise reduction and a little sharpening.
This is probably one of my favourite shots from our trip to Las Vegas so far.
So, I hope you will share your night shots (urban or otherwise) with us and let us know the settings and the approach you took to get the shot. I hope we can try and support and learn from each other in something that I know a lot of people struggle with (myself included).
