1st go at Night shots

[Sparky]

Any tips,pointers and C&C welcomed.

Thanks

 

[Messiah Khan]

Shoot with a tiny bit of colour in the sky. Also sort the white balance out as its way off.

 

[Sparky]

Shoot with a tiny bit of colour in the sky. Also sort the white balance out as its way off.

Will look into that what would you suggest setting the WB to?

 

[Bluelion]

Assuming you weren't parked next to a very bright red traffic light , the white balance is off on these by quite some margin. Did you shoot them in jpg or raw?

I'm embarrassingly poor at digitally fixing these things, my weak attempt at reducing the red left the picture pretty dark and green tinged, would be better with the original raw file:

 

[Sparky]

Was a carpark ontop of Waitrose, massive Orange floodlights everywhere.

Shot in jpeg.

 

[cokebottles]

Shoot in raw. Adjust the white balance in Lightroom, or the Camera RAW window when opening them in Photoshop. My advice for night shots like these is to try and compost the images so no lights are adjacent to the subject, because you get the distracting light orb/burnt out areas. Stree lights, floodlights, etc can be used to good affect if you make sure they dont distract from the subject, and maybe lead the view into whatever it is you are shooting. Just my 2p

 

[3dcandy]

ERM MARVIN TIME!

I would have obscured your reg number....

 

[Sparky]

Someone over on Cliosports.net mentioned shooting a piece of white paper 1st?

 

[paradigm]

Just thought I'd have a play at how I would have post-processed one of them, hope you don't mind!

 

[Sparky]

Not at all,that's really the shot i was looking for.

 

[James_N]

what settings did you use for these?

I think my new years resolution is to get off my behind and start using my 400D more than once a year!

 

[Phate]

Don't like the fake DoF on that one EL - otherwise I like it.

As said above, play with the WB and see what you come up with adjust the horizon and straighten them out - try cropping them differently to play about with the rule of thirds.

 

[Sparky]

Don't like the fake DoF on that one EL - otherwise I like it.

As said above, play with the WB and see what you come up with adjust the horizon and straighten them out - try cropping them differently to play about with the rule of thirds.

Would i be better off shooting in RAW? From the exif data is there anything else i should be changing?

 

[Sparky]

Would i be better off using for example iso 800 and setting the WB to Auto then taking it from there?

 

[Attu90]

I actually like the colour cast in the shots but are they all meant to tilt to the right or was the tripod not level ?

 

[Sparky]

I actually like the colour cast in the shots but are they all meant to tilt to the right or was the tripod not level ?

Lined it up as best i could in the lighting that was available. Was going to take some more tonight but i am now going down to the Autosport Awards instead.

 

[EternityEight]

I had some night shots in a really harsh red light recently too, I was shooting raw adjusting the white balance still couldnt recover the detail. I ended up duotoning them, kinda like what paradigm has done

 

[Phate]

Assuming you have a tripod.

Keep the ISO at 100 so there is little to no noise. WB can leave it to auto exposure time....try various times to see what you get, I'm gonna guess you'll need a few seconds at least

 

[Sparky]

Ok will give those a try, I thought the iso needed to be higher on low light. I suppose its best just to spend some time experimenting with different settings,shame it's so bloody cold!

 

[Phate]

Ok will give those a try, I thought the iso needed to be higher on low light. I suppose its best just to spend some time experimenting with different settings,shame it's so bloody cold!

Your right, high ISO for low light situations when you want a high shutter speed

However, your using a tripod and have time to kill, so whack the ISO down