What tips do you have for shooting night scenes?

The most difficult part of shooting night scenes is getting the light metered correctly. When shooting long-distance night scenes, the black sky will affect the camera's metering readings, making the shooting excessive. In addition, if you are affected by spotlights or other bright lights while shooting, you will be **inadequate** in some way.

Since the camera metering will default to 18% gray for the subject, if you follow the parameters provided by the camera, the final shot will generally be too bright. Therefore, in order to shoot a charming night scene, if the darker area of the captured picture is relatively large, **compensation should be appropriately reduced by 1-2 stops to get accurate**.

The best time to shoot night scenes** is between 4 and 7 p.m., which varies as sunset times vary from location to location. The best time is when the sun has just gone down and the clouds in the sky are still shining on the sun. At this time, the clouds are often very beautiful and do not compare much to the light on the ground.

Use a tripod to shoot night scenes, it doesn't matter what brand it is, choose a slightly heavier one. Shooting night lights is important and difficult to master, so it is recommended to use the aperture priority mode (a) mode. Choose a lot of traffic on the side of the road and the time period, the aperture is even between F8---F16, the metering mode is "evaluation metering", and the focus should not be focused on the brightest place, so that you will have a certain experience after repeated shooting, and then you will master this skill after a certain amount of practice.

Of course, the night scene refers to the shooting after sunset, but the night scene taken in different weather has different styles, sunny days, high air pressure, low humidity, good permeability, and night scenes** will also be very transparent; Rainy, cloudy, and cloudy days can make a faint and hazy beauty film. Therefore, as long as it is not a strong wind or a rainstorm, you can shoot different styles of night scenes**. During festivals and peacetime, the city's lighting costumes tend to be different and have different effects.

If the lights are turned on in the first half of the night and turned off in the second half of the night, the night view effect will be different.

Whether you're shooting street scenes in the hustle and bustle of the city or shooting magnificent mountains and rivers in the wild, remember to choose a location that can play a certain role in shelter, so as to avoid the impact of air currents and unnecessary collisions and friction caused by passing vehicles and pedestrians. Also, don't run to the overpass to shoot, because the walking of passers-by and the whistling of traffic will cause the overpass itself to shake. Second, it can avoid the impact of strong winds on the stability of the camera.

Pay attention to the shooting time: Many people think that when shooting night scenes, the sky should be dark, but this is not true. If you search for night blockbusters on the Internet, you will find a lot of beautiful night scenes, and the sky is that dreamy blue, which is very beautiful.

In fact, as long as you shoot the night scene about 30 minutes after the sun sets, you can also shoot the same dreamy effect

Canon, or Nikon full-frame SLR cameras as well as full-frame wide-angle lenses with good image quality, sturdy tripods, shutter release cables, etc. (Why didn't you choose Sony Mirrorless?) Who has ever seen a night scene shot by Sony mirrorless full-frame**?

Probably because its sensor is too sensitive, and the noise floor is too large to shoot slow door night scenes).

Most people like to stand on the flat ground and take pictures of the night scene, which looks good, but it doesn't have that shocking impact. When shooting honey tea, I will find a commanding height (such as a hill or the top of a building) and shoot from top to bottom. If you live on a high floor, you can even take a night view from your balcony, and the effect is definitely much more shocking than taking a shot on the flat ground.

If you need to spend a lot of time**, a tripod is definitely indispensable. Personally, my first shelf is domestic, so I won't mention the brand. In terms of stability and durability, it is very congested.

But I'm not saying that the quality of domestic shelves is not good, maybe my character is too good. Therefore, the most important premise of buying a tripod is to consider its stability, and I later changed to a Manfrotto shelf, which felt pretty good.

The choice of shooting location: For example, there should be a touching and grand scene, a wide field of vision, or a landmark scenery of the local scenery, choose a suitable camera position for shooting, and the operation of the night scene ** will be more than half successful.

1. A tripod is a must-have for night scenes, a tripod can be said to be a very important equipment when shooting night photos, and it must be stable enough to maximize its effectiveness, otherwise there is a chance to shoot more blurry than handheld.

2. You can use a small aperture: A small aperture can make the depth of field deeper and make the scenery clearer and sharper.

3. Reduce the ISO value: The higher the ISO value, the stronger the signal noise, if we can use a low ISO, the photo quality can be improved a lot immediately! Noise is noticeable in the dark, so it's even more important to use a tripod to lower the ISO when shooting night scenes.

4. Shoot dynamics: At slow shutter speeds (such as 10 seconds, minutes, or even hours), we can use photos to record the trajectory of light, which is useful when shooting the flow of tracks, star tracks, clouds, or graffiti of light and shadow.

5. Make the reflection on the water surface more prominent: Sometimes when shooting at the lake or in an environment with water surface, we can use the slow shutter speed to remove the waves on the water surface and make the reflection more prominent.