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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What light-painting technique/gear (flash, LED panel, flashlight) was used to make this shot?
Referencing this Death Valley image by Marc Adamus:
Is this lit by flash, LED panel, or flashlight?
I like the lighting, and am trying to achieve a similar result, but problems...
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Is a Canon T4i with 75-300mm EF lens sufficient for shooting night time football?
Do I need a different lens to get the faces of the players...some come out dark? I am shooting mostly on sports but sometimes Manual, otherwise photos are good. Not using flash.
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Can I fire an off camera flash remotely that ISN'T linked to the camera?
I am taking night landscape photos (10+ second exposures) and want to illuminate a feature that may be 25 feet from the camera (like a person). I want to be able to have an off camera flash 10 feet ...
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What lenses can capture pictures of the moon, stars, and landscape best? [closed]
I am wondering what lenses you would recommend that work best in both dark environments and for landscape. I have a Canon EOS Rebel T5, and I'm just looking for something to capture mostly the moon ...
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What's the least costly way to take video in the dark? [closed]
I want to take some video of a friend with a motor disorder while he is sleeping. We are doing this to help get information about what happens while he sleeps.
I have a tripod and set up my iPad to ...
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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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Does shooting at high ISO have a practical impact on battery life compared to exposure time?
I am shooting a nightlapse (RAW frames, Noise Reduction off) using my 6D with a few images every minute (I use Magic Lantern's intervalometer). My battery was in good condition and was close to full (...
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Affordable lenses for nightscape photography (nikon d5300)? [duplicate]
I just bought my first DSLR camera Nikon D5300 and currently I only have the kit lenses. I am looking to get some new ones soon to use them to take pictures of the moon and maybe even the stars. As ...
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Why are my long exposure sky shots out of focus? [duplicate]
If you take a look at a few of long exposure sky photos at Flickr, I think the context and content of the photo is okay, they are just all blurry. I'm using a tripod, 15 second exposure with a 18mm ...
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Long Image processing time after shutter is closed [duplicate]
I have a entry level dslr (Nikon D3300) and was practicing long exposure photography. I noticed one behviour from the camera and was inquisitive whether this can be tweaked in any way:
I kept the ...
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How do I find the right whitebalance for a night cityscape?
There are a number of articles on the net saying how to properly set WB for night shots. Specifically for cityscapes. For example, one of them says to use fixed Kelvin values like 2500 for nice blue ...
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Why the lights of that photo are too much blue/white in the edges?
yesterday I was taking some pictures from my city during the night and I could not find an explanation regarding the strange edge of blue/white lights.
I have the RAW file of it and I've tried to ...
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How can I tell if something in a photograph is a star or a planet?
A couple days ago, I zoomed in with my 30x optical zoom camera, and after some exposure adjustments, a bright star in the night sky turned into this:
Are those other planets or other stars? Or is ...
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Why do I never see HDR done with nighttime photography when the moon is in the frame?
Whenever I see nighttime long exposures with the moon, the moon is always way overexposed. I understand it's a bright object, but why don't I ever see HDR done to compensate for that? Does it look ...
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How do you take a picture without focusing?
So I've just started getting into photography. I'm currently experimenting with taking long exposure photos at night, but my house doesn't have the ideal surroundings for a good pic. Is there any way ...
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Autofocusing multi v single point at a party [duplicate]
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I've shot at a party at night recently. I've used mainly multi point (continuous) tracking as it makes more sense, as random events may come and go.
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How do I interpret flashlight specs for light painting at a distance?
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So I've seen light painting shots and I'd like to try it out sometime. I'm more interested in painting say parts of the landscape so they stand out during a long exposure.
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Is there ...
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How do you capture wildlife at night in near pitch black darkness?
I've seen many documentaries filming in pretty much pitch black darkness using some sort of night vision camera (which I haven't been able to find / search for on google).
How do you do this for ...
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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 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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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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Which lens should I use and how to take night pictures?
So I have a Canon T3 and I wanted to take pictures of the night sky and landscapes but since I'm a noob at photography, I was wondering which lens should I invest in that isn't quite pricey. I was ...
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What speed to shoot stars at? [duplicate]
What speed do I use to shoot the night sky? I tried last night, first tried with 30", then 10", then even 6", but all the times there were movement from the stars themselves, like this:
And that was ...
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Why is my picture of a house and night sky blurred, even though I'm using a tripod and remote? [duplicate]
so I tried to take pictures of a house and the night sky, but everything came out very blurry no matter what I used
I shot at 30 sec exposure, F 3.5, ISO 3200 on a tripod using remote
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Why are my night photos so dark after importing to my computer?
Normally I will shoot photos late at night using long exposures. On the camera, the photos look great... you can see the stars bright and clearly as well as the landscape. But after importing it into ...
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My DSLR always says "subject is too dark" — how can I get started with night photography?
I'm a real beginner at photography, but over this past year I've been trying to teach myself little tricks here and there.
Currently I want to start trying out night photography. However, despite ...
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Best approach for accurate & fast focusing of fully manual lenses without live view. Focus chip, focusing screen or another approach?
I purchased the Samyang 24mm f1.4 for my 6D for specifically night photography. I won't go into how amazing this lens is at night... I've since discovered that this lens produces fabulous images in ...
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Can anybody suggest a camera and flash combination for high speed, fast recycle time, night time photography?
I want to take photos of fast moving objects (shutter speed usually between 1/1000 and 1/2000 seconds), outdoors at night time (probably lit with flood lights, street lights etc), and I want to be ...
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What are the red, blue, and green dots in my night sky photos? [duplicate]
I recently bought a new telephoto lens for my Nikon D5000. With the new lens I started taking pictures of the moon.
When I take the pictures I have blue, red, and other colored dots in the photo, ...
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Improving My Night Photography Shot with Post-Processing
I like taking landscape/architecture shots of places at night such as the Golden Gate Bridge.
I've looked and found posts like these that talk about techniques on improving images from a non-FF ...
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How can I capture the atmosphere of group around a campfire at night?
I need to take a few photos of a camping party after sunset. Additionally, there is a campfire with kids sitting around.
Unfortunately, I have no clue how to capture this without destroying the warm,...
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Can I achieve infinity focus from Auto focus? [duplicate]
I have a 18-55mm zoom lens with no Infinity symbol on it. Let's assume I want to capture stars in night. There are three ways to do it (If I am not wrong)
Use Auto focus (If your camera is able to ...
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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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Can I desaturate incoming light using a filter or series of filters mounted to the lens?
I've got a very difficult shot coming up. I'm photographing moonlight on a country meadow. I do not want to do post work. I need to do everything real time (for reasons too long to get into, there is ...
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Why won't my Sony a350 take a picture in low light situations?
I'm trying to take a photo with my Sony a350 but it won't take pictures in low light situations. I have fiddled around with the shutter speed and the aperture but it still won't take the picture! (...
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Why are there shiny bits in my night photo?
Fisheye lens, so no UV filter installed that can mirror it.
ISO 800, 10s shutter, Canon 40D
my guess is in-camera high ISO reduction algorithm gone awry. could be?
Edit: I was talking about the bits ...
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How do you set up a photo of a glowing tent in the dark?
Sometimes, in pictures of camping published in outdoor magazines, I'll see a night shot where the tent is all lit up like a big yellow bulb. How do they get that shot? Long exposure, probably, but ...
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Why did I get blurry star trails?
This is my first star trail photograph stacked with StarStaX and can't seem to find out why they are so blurry.
I have a sturdy metal tripod with a cable release and shined a light to focus on the ...
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Unable to get crisp lights on buildings during pictures of cityscapes at night
The shots above look blurry to me. I looked on flickr for similar shots of the same cityscapes(seattle) and those looked blurry to me too.
For both shots I manually focused in live view and ...
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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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What is this yellow mark I get on dark photos?
I'm using a Nikon D3200 - new to photography. Whenever I take photos of the night I always get this yellow mark in the same spot.
I thought it could be a dirty lens so I cleaned it with a microfiber ...
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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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NIght photography and long exposures with film
I want to begin night photography and long exposures with my Nikon F100. I have noticed that in film photography it is very difficult to shoot and get both the dark and light areas well exposed. ...
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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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Canon Powershot SX20IS User error
I was completely surprised once regarding a question from a customer while working in a photographic store.
The lady was under the impression that there is a fault with her Canon SX20 bridge camera ...
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Does an already set (or not yet risen) moon still wash out stars?
If there's a decently sized moon (say, 50% visibility or more) but you still have a few hours of time before moonrise/after moonset, will the moon still wash out stars the same as if it were visible ...
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How do I take a "projector output" photo, showing the beam from my car's headlights?
Auto enthusiasts have a thing called a "Projector Output" photo, and its samples are something like this: mostly lights of the cars on a wall at night:
And here is a sample shot I did:
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What do I need to know about using a polarizing filter at night?
I am into night photography, and am looking at buying a polarizing filter. What particular advantages and challenges are there to using a polarizing filter at night?
reflections from light on ...
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Using the Lumix GM-1 for Aurora
is it possible to use the GM-1 with the standard 12-32mm lens for night photography and the Aurora? My attempts so far have been null. The manual doesnt say much. Is there general settings to use for ...
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