 | using your camera at night and day |
| using your camera at night and day |
using your camera at night and day | ||
| shooting at night without flash or blurred images shooting the sky during the day with more detail | ||
| Deborah Kantor (Fillerbunny) Post Count: Joined: | Msg: #1 Added: 2006-08-08 15:08:08 | |
| hi there, recently I was playing a soccer game in Bolivia during the night. I wanted to take photos but found that I couldn't get the correct light without the flash, also the subjects in the photos were moving, causing them to blur. How can I take a photo at night so the images won't blur and so I won't have to use the flash? Also, I've noticed in so many people's photos of churches for instance that they have gotten the sky to look so beautiful, usually mine turns out plane blue or burns out to a white. How can I put more detail into the sky? Thank you, Fillerbunny | ||
| Bob Wallace (BobTrips) Post Count: Joined: | Msg: #2 Added: 2006-08-09 16:10:56 | |
| Faster shutter speeds are the only way to freeze motion in this situation. Higher ISO settings allow you to use faster shutter speeds, thus reducing/eliminating motion blur. It would help to know what camera you are using. Most small sensor cameras (some Fujis excepted) don't do well if you crank up the ISO. Most dSLRs do. As for skies, make sure that you don't overexpose them, "blow them out". A pure white sky usually means overexposure. If you are shooting in tricky situations then exposure bracketing is usually a good idea. If you have some color in the sky you can boost it by increasing contrast or increasing saturation. You might want to select the sky and change only it and not the rest of the image. Hope this helps. | ||
| Adrian Warren (AdrianW) Post Count: Joined: | Msg: #3 Added: 2006-08-15 15:43:22 | |
| For football, the only real solutions are a fast lens (say f/2.8) and/or high ISO. Both are rather more common on dSLRs like the Canon EOS 350D/Digital Rebel XT than they are on compacts. Sky wise - the solution there is to shoot at the right time. Just before sunrise and just after sunset are the best times if you have an artificially lit subject. The trick is to find an interesting sky in the first place - generally if it makes a pretty sunset, then it'll make a nice background. Completely overcast or clear blue skies aren't ideal. | ||
| Adrian Warren (AdrianW) Post Count: Joined: | Msg: #4 Added: 2007-04-23 18:26:52 | |
| With the church shots, you can use HDR to get the background to balance with the foreground. Shoot a bracket set of three exposures, typically at metered, and one -2 stops, and one +2 stops. Then merge the results in something like Photomatix | ||
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