 Tye |
How do you shoot outside at night?A.S.A.P.! I am looking at shooting tonight outside under street lamps. I have seen work done like this, but have no clue how to accomplish this. I have only basic film (35mm) equpiment and a flash with my camera. Help, A.S.A.P.! -Tye Djinn
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Tom Kwan |
Hi Tye, Use tripod, small aperture f11-16 , long exposure time. It would be better if you can have color filters to adjust the color temperature of the street lamp.
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Tye |
Ohk, thanks so much. Should I use the flash? The street lamps I am thinking of using are the new white ones that look like sun light. -Tye
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Tom Kwan |
It all depends on the actual environment and the subject you are shooting. If it is a street scene, no flash is needed, if it is a person, a cat in the shadow or whatever you want to highlight then use flash as a supplementary light. Sometimes the flash is too strong the suject will be over exposured, in such case, use a piece of thin tissue paper to cover the flash, this practise reduces the light output by -1 to -2 EV. If you are using ETTL flash, adjust the output to -1 to -2 EV.
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Tye |
Thanks so much, I'll try that. -Tye Djinn
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