Questions tagged [night]
Night is the period of time between the sunset and the sunrise when the Sun is below the horizon. This occurs after dusk. The start and end times of a night vary based on factors such as season, latitude, longitude and timezone. Night is also the period when astrophotography can take place, recording images of astronomical objects and large areas of the night sky.
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How can I use a Ricoh 35 FM film rangefinder to take photographs at night?
Recently I thrifted a cool little rangefinder camera: a Ricoh 35 FM. I am new to photography, and am planning on shooting in the night. However, the camera does not have as many settings to change as ...
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How can I take good photos of stars out of a cockpit window using the Samsung 21 ultra?
I am an airline pilot and as the winter is coming and we get nice clear nights I am seeing masses of stars out the flight deck windows. At night we have dim lighting in the flight deck and when I try ...
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Visible discrete gradient transitions of glow on photos with long exposure
On my new Nikon D7100, when I set a longer exposure, instead of smooth transition, I can see the transition steps. It can bee seen on attached photo (the rough gradient in the sky)
Is it a problem of ...
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How do the stars in this photo appear without star trails even at a long shutter speed?
I found an image of the night sky taken by James Sainty at http://500px.com/photo/11615131.
It has the following EXIF metadata:
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How to create a fake long exposure from a bunch of frames
I made several frame screenshots at one angle and I want to join them into a long exposure shot similar to those pictures of night traffic. Like this example.
But I can't get my head around, how to ...
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How would one get a moon shot like this?
Here is the shot, taken off Reddit:
As you see, the moon has a perfectly exposed shadow (you can see the details in the unlit side of it) which I want to achieve. I understand you want to have a ...
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What are these disks in my photo taken with the Tamron 10-24 lens?
I am starting to dabble in night photography, so I just bought a lens (Tamron 10-24) and checked it out last night. Please take a look at the photos and help me determine if I have now recorded UFO's ...
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How can I create light trails without a blurry subject?
I would like to achieve this effect using my Nikon P510:
Are there any suggestions or tips that would help me do that?
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Is there a way to get rid of this glowing effect?
I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of the glow around the tree in the bottom right.
I've gotten as far as thinking it's some form of luminosity due to reflections at ground level (this is in my ...
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Astrophotography - Image quality reduced after multiple long exposures
I'm currently using NIKON D5600 for my untracked astrophotography, and depends on the target I need to take up to 100 exposures of 15-20 seconds each.
I have a manual shutter remote and I manually ...
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Why did my night pictures turned out so foggy, light or too bright?
I received my developed pictures and many of them are foggy. It seems that some shot with similar light is foggier than the others. Can it be that something went wrong in the development process, is ...
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How can I reduce the effect of sodium vapor street lights in night photography?
I would like to light buildings at night using torches etc. How do I reduce the sodium light (street light ) that is cast on it. Can I reduce it with a filter and if so which one?
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What materials absorb or block infrared wavelengths?
I'm not exactly doing pro photography here; please forgive me. My baby monitor is mounted in a corner. It shines bright IR at night, and the walls are highly reflective, and I can barely see into the ...
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Errant lights in long exposure at night
I've been trying to get some images of the milky way. I was is central Sardegna near some neolithic ruins as a backdrop. A few images had this odd squiggles of light. Not every frame has it.
It's ...
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Not able to manual focus in night for star photography
I was shooting at f4.5 shutter speed 30s for capturing stars in my photo but was not able to manual focus as we can't set the manual focus for stars.
I am using a 18-55mm Nikkor lens, what I get after ...
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Large DOF in low light for portrait in front of a landscape?
I am using a Nikon D610 and mostly I can get nice landscape shots with long exposure (with f/8-f/11) range using a 35mm f/1.4 lens. However now my issue is, I want to take pictures of a person in ...
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Circular Pattern in Night Sky Image
A few days ago I took a night sky image of the milky way with my XPERIA 1 II and wanted to take a closer look at the RAW file in Lightroom Mobile. When doing so, I realised a strange circular pattern.
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Why are my photo's not so sharp even when using a tripod?
I took the following photos yesterday to capture the shades of sunset skies. However, I am utterly disappointed with the sharpness of the overall pictures (areas in shadows particularly very soft) and ...
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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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I'm trying to take a photo of the stars however it's either white or black
I have a Canon EOS 2000D with a Tamron AF 70-300mm, EFS 18-55mm and a 500mm & 1000mm manual lenses;
I have it set on bulb for long exposure, F5.6 which is the smallest aperture, ISO I've tried ...
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I want to take photo of moon with my mobile camera?
I tried taking pic of moon with my mobile camera, i tried auto mode and manual mode also. but its not clear. what are different option or addition tool required.
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How to take great night shots with a subject in the foreground and a cityscape behind?
I have Canon Rebel XS (EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Autofocus Lens). I have been trying to take decent night photographs for a while. But it seems to take a lot of effort. Can we take good night shots ...
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How to illuminate an outdoor night time portrait with a cityscape background?
I encountered this problem the other day at one of the many skybars in Bangkok. I wanted to take some photos of my friends enjoying their drinks, but the situation had a few challenges; the only light ...
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How do I get good colors when taking pictures in the city at night?
I'm very interested in doing night time shootings.
I'm using Canon 5d3 with 85mm at f/1.2, and at iso 2000 I'm able to get exposure times around 1/150s-1/200s.
However, the lighting in my city ...
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How to photograph a couple exiting their wedding at night?
This is my first wedding season, and I'm mostly a natural light photographer. I'm starting to get weddings that end later in the evening. When it's really dark out, lenses obviously don't know what to ...
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What is this effect, with millions of coloured light dots surrounding people in the dark?
I found this picture:
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What kind of technique is necessary to create such pictures?
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How do I get started with 'painting with light' photography?
Tunnels being naturally dark may not be the most intuitive choice for a place to take pictures. But I love the 'painting with light' work that artists such as 'Twin Cities Brightest' are putting out ...
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Difference in light between new moon night and adjacent nights
I want to photograph bioluminescence in a remote area without light pollution. A dark sky is key.
The only light would be from the moon and the stars, so I'm aiming for the next new moon (fortunately ...
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How do you make a shot look like it was taken at night?
Okay, so I was watching a movie recently, and there was a night scene. The whole valley could be seen in light, and there were some stars as well, and the actors could be seen, but it just looked like ...
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Whats the "most amount of moon" acceptable for astrophotography?
The last time I shot the sky, it was a full moon and it completely ruined my shot. What's the maximum amount of moon (i.e. 1/3, 1/2, etc...) that can be out that won't adversely impact a shot of the ...
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Which wide angle lens and camera combinations are considered to be particularly resistant to artifacts from street light sources?
I am looking to do a project which involves shooting night time scenes with lots of street lamps in the frame and would like to minimize flare, ghosts and halos ("sun stars" are expected unless they'...
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Are there add-on lens accessories which collect additional light, as a parabolic microphone can be used to gather more sound?
I recently imagined a useful accessory.
Suppose you need an fast shutter and low ISO photo, but your APS-C camera doesn't help much, nor does your telephoto lens with very small aperture, in the ...
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Night vision camera got a picture but it was just a blank white rectangle from the license plate lights. Is there any way to get the numbers?
Recently, we had a problem with people doing donuts in our parking lot. We have the cameras in place but the night vision camera couldn’t see the license plate because of the lights that illuminate ...
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Looking for advice for choosing a DSLR for landscape/night photography [duplicate]
After several years of using my Canon Rebel T3 on and off, I've decided to upgrade my camera and start actually learning photography. My main interests are in landscapes and night/astrophotography. I'...
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Why isn't my Canon Speedlite 580 working on my 5D Mark II?
I was shooting at night and my flash was working perfectly, all of a sudden I tried taking another picture and it stopped working. I was using it on ETTL mode, the pictures looked underexposed with no ...
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median stack mode is blurring my stars
i am trying to reduce noise with median stack filter but all the stars are smeared/blurred.
Gear nikon D7100, Samyang 10mm, tripod, PS CC
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Laser positioning on barn door tracker
I'm heading up to Scotland in April for a bit of a road trip and I'd like to give astrophotography a bit of a go. I'm like to try and get some deep sky photos (Andromeda etc) and have decided that ...
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I was just approached to do nightclub photography, I've never done it before and I want to know what I need to pull it off
So I was taking photos downtown and an event manager for a local nightclub approached me. He wants me to shoot for his event at the local club on Friday. I said yes.
But I know I need to modify my ...
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Night sky photography [duplicate]
I’m newbie in photography. I’ve been trying to catch the Milky Way it stars trials.
But I always end up with dark noisy picture with blurred stars and even faint ones. Unlike the second picture I’m ...
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Is it better to take Black and White photos during daylight hours or evening?
Is it better to take photos for intended black and white images during the daylight hours or in the evening? I really like landscapes that have a good contrast when it comes to the clouds and skyline ...
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Can I take clear night sky photographs with my smartphone?
is it possible to take clear night sky shots with stars/ planets visible from Redmi Note 4? what settings do I use? when I try to take it just comes black, unless on full moon day with HDR, though ...
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What's the best quality paper to print night photos?
I am shooting numerous different types of long exposures of cityscapes. I want to know what is the best type of paper to print onto? I want to get the deepest blacks.
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Suggestions for night photography with city lights?
Pardon perhaps a beginners question. I'm starting to experiment with night photography, as I like to take city shots at night when i travel. I took a sample shot of the palace of fine arts as shown ...
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Can’t set manual focus on distant objects at night [duplicate]
I’m taking night pictures with Canon EFS 18-135mm STM lens and EOS 450D body. I’ve noticed that when I’m trying to shoot distant objects and there is enough light for the AF to work the pictures come ...
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How to achieve a timelapse effect where stars streak through the sky?
I can't really explain it so I'm finding it hard to Google for tutorials. I was wondering how to get this effect:
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By using something like Photoshop CS6 or a freeware program. I'm ...
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What lighting should I use for a night graduation?
I am taking photos of each graduate receiving their diploma so it will be quick. It takes place on a football field at night with only the field lights. I will be moving from one side to the other. ...
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What settings for Dirt track night time pictures
So I just started taking pictures at a dirt track and having problems with getting them crystal clear at night races. I'm using a Nikon D-90 with a tamron 70-300 lens. I have my ISO on 2500 and ...
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Portrait photography [duplicate]
Is there any advice for shooting portrait in dark room, using only lamps. I am little bit confused with iso,aperture and shutter speed because i photographing with analog film.
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What matters for low light performance?
I really enjoy taking pictures at night, however my current point and shoot is not quite cutting it, so I'm looking to step up to a DSLR.
I've mostly been looking at Canon's Rebel line and have read ...
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