Questions tagged [night-photography]
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Taking a skyline photo with a person closer to the camera during night time
How can I take a photo which shows the skyline and the person who is standing around six feet away from the camera with proper lighting at night?
For taking just the skyline I've used long shutter ...
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switched to RAW and seeing ugly light bands in Lightroom
I am used to working mostly with jpeg, but I switched to RAW and in my shoot today I see a lot of problems in night shots.
notice how the purple sky has waves of color boundary rings. I am shooting ...
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Will my finepix s8600 be enough for the milky way
I'm planning on buying a DSLR soon but impatience got me I decided to take my moms 4 year old bridge camera and give a shot, I took pictures in a mildly light polluted area, and it seemed to have ...
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How to get exposure right in night photography?
In this link there are some wonderful night time scenes (#4,6,7,9,10,11,13). I'm wondering how the photographer got the exposure right. In my experience my camera metering will overexpose everything ...
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What should I look for in a camera for Night Sky Photography?
I am a beginner and planning to buy a mirror less camera for Night Sky Photography.
Here are some questions I have while considering what camera to buy. My max budget for body only is around $1000.
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Night Photography Moire - Nikon D810
I'm shooting with a Nikon 810, and my night shots often have a strong moire when I export them from Lightroom at 640x640 (optimized for Instagram).
This photo was shot at f2.8, ISO 4000, 15 seconds ...
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How do I take a photo so the moon doesn't have bright "rays"?
Any advice on how to remove moon "rays"? (Looking to learn how to take a photo without them, not remove them in post)
Artistic opinion - is it too underexposed?
The picture was shot at shutter speed ...
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In an image with camera shake and a point light source, can the shape of the point light source be used to practically reduce the shake significantly?
Often said "you could compute out the camera shake if you knew the blur function"...
One area frequently plagued by shake: Night photography.
One thing frequently found in night photography: Stars ...
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Why do the stars look so blurry? How can I improve the focus?
For some reasons I do not understand the stars look very blurry in this photo:
Here is the photo details
I have tried different exposure times such as 10" or 8", but the outcome is still the same.
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How could I have post-processed this picture to create better lighting?
I changed a lot of things between these two images (removed some distracting bits, Photoshopped it, so it looks like her eye is actually open, etc.) but I'm mainly curious about how I could have made ...
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Need some help with astro photography
I'm just getting into photography and I'm interested in landscape, astro and macro photography.
Because of the comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), I tried to make some pictures during the night, but I think ...
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What camera features do I need to take a clear picture of NEOWISE?
My current digital camera is a Nikon Coolpix L110. Several years ago, I took pictures of a lunar eclipse. The pictures weren't what I wanted. The moon was a featureless white disk with and there was a ...
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Star photography noise
I am using the BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera (original) to play around with capturing images of the night sky.
So this is a Super16 2.1MP sensor with a 135mm cinema lens at T2.2 capturing 12-bit ...
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Websites or advice for Northern Lights Photography (super beginner here) [duplicate]
I am brand new to the DSLR scene; I just purchased a Nikon d3400. I'm going to Alaska next month to hopefully catch my first glimpse of the Northern Lights. I understand that the d3400 may not be the ...
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Dance photography [duplicate]
I want to take photos of my son who will be dancing at a theatre. The lighting will be changing according to the scene. I need help with the setting in my camera. What settings should i use? I have a ...
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