First time night shots

iconnect

Just want advice on how to improve on this please (be constructive)

Ideo

just curious, what time did u take that at?

and i dont know much but i would even out the horizon firstly, theres only a little there but its a start

iconnect

it was taken at 9.45 last night

melekalikimaka

its quite noisy(don't know if thats the word for it). its a little bare too, maybe some thing in the middle of the picture, a family, a log anything to make it a bit more interesting, the lights and stones look great tho. an odd time to take a picture, but gives a very unique light to it all

Dimy

And you definitelu have a tilted horizon problem there, check the sealine! Luckily I just posted a tutorial on how to fix this with Photoshop on this forum!
Nice pic, but as said by the others there's quite some noise in the photo, you used a high ISO? Try taking the shot at 100 ISO on a tripod and use a longer exposure.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

What exactly do people mean when they say there's 'noise' in a photograph??

Ruu_Old

Ikky Poo2 wrote:

What exactly do people mean when they say there's 'noise' in a photograph??

Similar to grain I believe. Heres a decent explaination of it.

Dimy

Ikky Poo2 wrote:

What exactly do people mean when they say there's 'noise' in a photograph??

Yeah I meant the grain, usually caused by shooting with a high ISO setting (or high ISO film).

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Ah, I see.... many thanks... really should try out the different settings on this thing!

Fionn

very nice shot

yea i noticed the horizon isn't level, easy to fix tho!
and the noise can be reduced too and maybe some saturation.

May I have a go at adjusting it for practise??

joolsveer

Great photo of Bray. Love the grain - it gives atmosphere.

Borderfox

Stick the camera on a tripod and open the shutter for longer

EireRoadUser

Just tried a long exposure (60 seconds) in daylight 6pm

ISO 100 ,static builds up in the image sensor the higher the iso

joolsveer

EireRoadUser wrote:

Just tried a long exposure (60 seconds) in daylight 6pm

ISO 100 ,static builds up in the image sensor the higher the iso

That's a great effect. Must try it out.

melekalikimaka

wow thats pretty cool, howd ya do it exactly? i tried but it did nothing?

Fajitas!

Haha! G'won the torch!

EireRoadUser

The lenses minimum aperature is 16 ,so i had it at 16 ,ISO 100 and the time was about 60 seconds. Pointed the camera into a spot of less light while the polarizer was on.
Will try it sometime with 2 polarizers and see what that will do.

Night shots are better at iso 100 or so ,but I think myself it depends on what aperature you want depending on what iso you want up to 300 or so.

I tried my pseudo name tonight.
Sorry for blabbering on in this thread ,I know its not my thread . I just really want to explore all night photography and long exposures,great craic.

melekalikimaka

http://static.flickr.com/53/119561056_c395294f78_o.jpg thats mine

Borderfox

Class effects

EireRoadUser

One shot I think would be great for a night or evening shot is a long exposure of a busy pub with the people going in and out making trails ,and the doors all blurred.

Fajitas!

Torch's can be great fun, get one (not LED) with a weak bulb/batteries and use it for portraits to paint in the face. Takes a good few shots but they turn out great!


(Edited - Drunken post!)