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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Can you photograph the milky way with a full moon out?
Is it possible to photograph the milky way (or just any stars or stellar objects) when a full moon is out?
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How do I capture the milky way?
Can the milky way actually be photographed like this? I know the image is manipulated, and is probably a composite, but how do you capture such contrast in the milky way? Is an equitorially mounted ...
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What tips and advice do you have for photographing the Aurora Borealis?
A friend has been kind enough to lend me a DSLR for a few months. It's my first foray into DSLR photography, or indeed any kind of photography beyond simply aiming my Canon IXUS at something and ...
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How to capture details of the moon?
I just purchased a D5100 and I am slowly learning the basics. I mostly shoot landscape/scenery shots.
I have been trying to capture the full moon unsuccessfully. It looks focused in the ...
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How can I find infinity focus on a kit lens with no markers?
I have a kit lens which has no markers. What would be a recommended way to find infinity focus on this lens?
I plan to shoot objects at night -- not necessarily stars or the moon. So, adjusting the ...
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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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Why is it that when the green channel clips, it turns into blue?
I was taking photos of snow sculptures at night, and I noticed something strange on my Olympus O-MD E-M10 Mark II.
This green lit sculpture
when the green channel gets blown, turns blue
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How do I eliminate reflection on glass? [duplicate]
When I take a picture through a window, I often see a reflection on the glass. I have noticed that this occurs mostly when it is dark or overcast outside or it is especially bright on my side of the ...
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For night photography with lots of unexposed areas, should I go with high iso and low exposure, or low iso and high exposure?
I have been doing so much research on iso, and for awhile I've been going with the theory that low iso= less noise, so I've been shooting at iso 100 and then adjusting my flashlights and increasing ...
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What times and settings should I use for taking pictures of stars at night and falling stars?
The season of the falling stars started and I want to try to achieve some picture of stars and falling one too.
I see a lot of picture with a immense number of stars but they are still. Now I'm ...
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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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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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How to take the night skies and meteor showers? [duplicate]
I have a Nikon D5200 and last night I went to take few night sky pictures hoping to capture a passing meteor. There were plenty of meteors I seen last night, but I was able to capture only one. ...
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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 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 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 do I take a portrait at night with detail in the background instead of just blackness?
I was trying to make a photo of my girlfriend around 9 pm with a D7000, Sigma 24-70 2.8, and SB-900. She was in the center of the frame, taking up about 20% of the frame. About 40% was taken up by ...
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What settings should I be using to shoot "Supermoon"?
This weekend is a "Supermoon" (the largest full moon of the year, in perigee, the closest to Earth). Would someone please advise how I could make the most out of my Canon PowerShot to photograph this ...
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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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Why in a photo light lines of street lamps? How to remove them?
Shutter speed - 32 sec.
Aperture - f/9
ISO - 100
Lens - EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II
Focal Length - 39 mm
I have took the photo through the window, with the lights off
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Why should I use the widest aperture for star photography?
In the article, Photographing Stars Using a Kit Lens, the author talks about keeping the widest aperture, e.g. ƒ/3.5. But it's my understanding that a wide aperture means a smaller area will be in ...
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How do I take portrait photo with flash and good ambient light as background?
I was taking a building structure with nice ambient light using high ISO without flash. The photo turned out as what I expected. However, when I took it with a person as foreground with Canon ...
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How do I choose between an SLR or an expensive P&S?
I am planning to buy a new camera and am all confused. I am an amateur photographer who likes to click good photographs. I try to make the most of my Nikon CoolPix camera and have some decent ...
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Which compact camera to shoot stars, moon and hopefully planets and sun?
I need a new camera! My Canon IXUS is now very old. What I want to be able to do is take photos of the night sky (stars, moon, planets) and the sun. Well, ideally! I have been looking at a bridge ...
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How to deal with shots at night with different kinds of light from different sources?
I tried to shoot some photos the evening of the 5th of January (CET time), it was an event called Cabalgata de Reyes Magos.
I tried to gain some practice with what I had learned so far, but could not ...
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How can I focus quickly outdoors in the dark?
I was with my family at a seaside, late and in darkness. My nephew and niece were playing in the water and running around, and I wanted to take picture of them, but my autofocusing system was taking ...
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What advice would you give for taking photos on a boat cruise at night?
Tomorrow I will be going on a boat cruise in the evening in London. I will no doubt be looking for photo opportunities on the boat, both of people, as well as the landmarks/surroundings. I'm pretty ...
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How to picture thunder when storm is coming [duplicate]
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What technique and camera settings should I use to capture lightning strikes?
My home town is very lack of thunders, but when time comes, I should be prepared to shoot. I've ...
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Why is my nighttime sky image so poor (few stars and a yellow glow)?
I am new to astrophotography and I take most of my pictures at around 11pm, which is reasonably dark. The only lights which are on near me are street lights and they are behind trees.
I am struggling ...
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How can I get very vivid colors in night cityscape pictures?
Can you suggest me what kind of settings would I need to make these kind of pictures.
The scenario will be just like the pictures: Outdoors, lights on the streets, and maybe very small rivers with ...
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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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Is it possible to make a single still photo from a video?
The idea comes from the fact that in astronomy (amatorial), it's common to take videos from a telescope with a webcam and convert them into a single, less noisy picture.
The principle is that of ...
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Why are red lights in night / city scenes coming out as big red blobs?
I've noticed that in a lot of my night shots of cityscapes, red lights (e.g. neon signs on buildings, etc.) tend to come out as big red blobs:
The above was taken with my Canon 500D.
What can I do ...
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Why are my night photographs always blurry?
I was shooting the lighting of the city that is visible at the top of the trees if you shoot landscape.
No matter what I do, the image is blurry. What have i done:
ISO 100
Manual focus towards ...
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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 can be used to "fight" light pollution in astrophotography?
I just read an answer to a question regarding astrophotography and I wonder what filters (and other stuff that helps) I can use for astrophotography for reducing the "effect" of light pollution.
I ...
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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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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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How to best prepare, print, and display night photos?
How does one prepare night-time photographs (long exposures of starfields, moonlight, city lights, etc.) for printing? Do particular paper types (e.g. metallic) work better for this purpose?
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Why do I have blurry star trails?
Last weekend I was experimenting with capturing star trails. I tried taking a set of 9 photos of the stars and Milkway (ISO 1600, f/2.8, 30 seconds exposure). Here is resulting combined photo (stacked ...
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What are the features needed in a DSLR for astrophotography?
I'm a person who's in love with the night sky, so that I want to capture some beautiful moments I experience. I'd like to buy a new DSLR , but I already have a Nikon D5200 and I I tried so much to get ...
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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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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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Focus in night photography
Another question related to the Olympus OMD EM5. I bought this camera to replace my Nikon D90 and I'm very satisfied with it.
However, I find very hard to do the focus at night. With the Nikon D90, ...
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Does shooting at lower MP result in less image noise? [duplicate]
My Sony a65 has a 24MP and 10MP mode. Will shooting at 10MP result in less image noise? I'm looking to do more night photography.
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How do you photograph a lunar eclipse?
Tonight is the night of a lunar eclipse, and I'm curious, what kinds of tips do you guys have for photographing one? I'd like solutions for both consumer-grade equipment, as well as DSLRs, so that ...
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What sort of adjustments should be applied to bring out the colors in this photograph of the aurora?
I recently had the opportunity to photograph the Aurora Borealis and while a limited number of my photographs where quite striking with almost no adjustments, a lot of them look like the following:
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How can I take a photo of a dark bar with a bright sign?
I took an image of a dark bar with a bright sign at night using auto mode:
ISO 1250 | 1/60s | f/2
What I actually wanted is to be able to read the sign in the background. On this image it is ...
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What settings should I use to photograph aurora borealis with a wide angle f/4 lens?
I've tried my first night photography of the stars last week. Most articles I've seen were recommending a fast lens, fully opened, @ ISO 800 and about 20 - 30s exposure, etc. Unfortunately, my only "...
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How to stop a high F number from appearing blurry?
I have been out taking some evening photos (just after sunset) and I have noticed that in a number of instances the higher f numbers ( 14+ ) are appearing more blurred than the lower f numbers ( < ...
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