Night/Light pollution tips...

[DannyR]

Heading down to the Canary wharf area of London friday night to grab some photos of everything lit up!

Any tips please?

 

[powey]

tripod

 

[DannyR]

Thats a given

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Shoot in RAW so you have greater flexibility in changing the white balance afterwards

 

[powey]

Instead of using the shutter button use a remote button or set the camera on timer countdown as this ensures the camera wont wobble

 

[DannyR]

Always shoot in RAW and whenever doing long exposure shots, 2 seconds countdown is on. Bloody annoying when you get your camera out next time and realise you've left it on!

 

[powey]

I always do that lmao!

 

[DannyR]

Lol, its annoying, as usually the next place is a race track!

 

[Jungle_Jim]

i would shoot with a small aperture (from f11 - f32) to reduce flare and create nice star burst effects on the streetlights. the smaller the aperture the greater the effect.

example pics off the net
f14

f22

 

[powey]

i would shoot with a small aperture (from f11 - f32) to reduce flare and create nice star burst effects on the streetlights. the smaller the aperture the greater the effect.

Good tip

 

[DannyR]

Smaller aperture is the bigger number yea? Thus letting less light through?

Cheers

O an awsome photos

 

[Jungle_Jim]

Smaller aperture is the bigger number yea? Thus letting less light through?

Cheers

O an awsome photos

yep that right mate,


not my pics im affraid

aperture also effects depth of field, the larger the F number ie F22 (small aperture) the larger the depth of field

 

[Josh2005]

yep that right mate,


not my pics im affraid

aperture also effects depth of field, the larger the F number ie F22 (small aperture) the larger the depth of field

They are ukaskew's off here, takes awesome photos.

 

[BenWall]

Wouldn't use a tripod there mate, it's not allowed. Security will be on you pretty quickly.

 

[DannyR]

Wouldn't use a tripod there mate, it's not allowed. Security will be on you pretty quickly.

Are you being serious?

 

[Bash]

Yeah its technically illegal to set up a tripod in a street without permission from the council. And I forgot to say watch out for light pollution, I had to spend many hours photoshoping my images as there is soo much light pollution. There is not much you can do but photoshop the sky, you will see a huge amount of orange glow around the buildings and its very very frustrating, a ctb filter may reduce ambient noise from street lights etc.

 

[clairemae]

i find the light trains of just a road a bit boring/uncreative. the light graffiti ones are pretty cool

 

[DannyR]

Got back at 3am this morning, got a few good ones. Had no reall problems with security or setting up a tripod anywhere, and that involed the central reservation on the embankment near houses of parliment lol!

Gonna process them later tonight to get rid of the orange glow, which wasn't as bad as I first thought!

 

[jimbo666]

get them up matey!