Night Shots - Help

YeahOK

Okay, so I'm having a problem with night shots getting all yellow on me which is possibly down to light pollution or more likely down to something I'm doing wrong. I've tried changing ISO, shutterspeed, aperture. What am I doing wrong?

Example, this just looks off, or is it my monitor?



ISO 100
F1.8
3/10

The reds and blues of the sign just don't pop the way I wanted them to and the way I saw them. Should I have gone to F4.0??

It's something that happens to me all too often and it's getting pretty frustrating.

Does anyone have some cheeky tricks for nice clean night shots?

nilhg

YeahOK wrote: »

Okay, so I'm having a problem with night shots getting all yellow on me which is possibly down to light pollution or more likely down to something I'm doing wrong. I've tried changing ISO, shutterspeed, aperture. What am I doing wrong?

Example, this just looks off, or is it my monitor?



ISO 100
F1.8
3/10

The reds and blues of the sign just don't pop the way I wanted them to and the way I saw them. Should I have gone to F4.0??

It's something that happens to me all too often and it's getting pretty frustrating.

Does anyone have some cheeky tricks for nice clean night shots?

Its most likley your white balance setting, if you shot RAW you will have quite a lot of latitude to adjust it in LR or ACR, just play around till you find a setting you like. With jpeg you'll be looking at the colour temp slider.

ISO or aperture would have very little effect.

digitalbeginner

Use a tungsten (or incandescent white balance) and you'll see some of the orange come out. I shot Big Ben a couple of months ago and I found it very orange. The stone used has an orange colour so when you add the orange coming off the street lights you'll always end up with a VERY orange picture.

As nilgh said, RAW is the best way to shoot night shots as you can change the white balance afterwards.

What camera and software are you using?

Dave

YeahOK

digitalbeginner wrote: »

Use a tungsten (or incandescent white balance) and you'll see some of the orange come out. I shot Big Ben a couple of months ago and I found it very orange. The stone used has an orange colour so when you add the orange coming off the street lights you'll always end up with a VERY orange picture.

As nilgh said, RAW is the best way to shoot night shots as you can change the white balance afterwards.

What camera and software are you using?

I'm using a Canon 350D. I've started playing around with Aperture for PP.

I've actually shot this in RAW so I might muck about with it in Aperture and see if I can't correct the WB.

Thanks for the feedback btw.

melekalikimaka

iso too low, changing apeture wont effect colours... it effects DOF and creats bokeh, 3/10 is pretty shakey too, push the iso to at least 800 and shutter speed bout 1/125 and results will be better, and of course the WB jazz mentioned above

ThOnda

The colour cast is only due to filters on the lens or the white balance set in the camera.
Low ISO, long times, steady tripod, lens hood and remote shutter release, that's what you need. And a lot of patience :-)

YeahOK

Yeah, was on business in London when I took it so didn't have a tripod and had to hand hold. The problem with upping the ISO is it gets noisy on the 350D above 400.

Might try squeezing the tripod into the bag next time I'm over ang go back and give it another crack!

Appreciate the advice though, all pointers welcome.

ThOnda

I have the tiny one in my camera bag. The price was about 2 Sterlings. You can place the camera on rails, tables, benches or even on the ground. It does the job.