Just Another _____
Emma (just M). 33. DC. She/They. Software Engineer, photographer, explorer, trans woman.
More you might like
Vaporwave Garage
aesthetic photographers on here simply do not need the top half of the histogram
Unholy place
A foggy, foggy morning
What’s up late night folks? Here’s an eerie shot I took down a pitch black road in the middle of the night
Extracting from the original tags: this is an 8 minute exposure — it was indeed pitch black
Oh hell yes.
Kind of a shame no animals disturbed that shot. Would have been nice.
Also, why is it SO INCREDIBLY HARD to get cameras to capture something even vaguely like what you see at night?
I get that they are recording a much narrower angle, but they all either do color correcting until it looks like daylight, or you get a picture which is black except for like three bright dots.
The most common issues I have had with night photography:
1. Exposure
Cameras like to expose for the day time. So, you probably want your shot to be about 1 stop under what your camera’s meter says. Seems to be true for most cameras. When in doubt, bracket.
2. White balance
Your camera is probably set to auto white balance. In my experience, auto white balance only really works in the day. At night, I tend to manually set my white balance for artificial lights. That’s usually labeled Tungsten or Fluorescent in your camera’s white balance settings. This is usually an instant improvement. White balance is usually the first thing I edit once I get to a computer as well.
Example:
Camera’s white balance - totally fucked. Shot at blue hour, not blue
White balance set to Florescent - looking better
White balance set to Tungsten - too far
Ultimately manually edited to this
Setting the white balance here makes a huge different & can really make a photo taken at night look like night time. As you can see, sometimes camera eliminate how the world looks at night!
Street photography in Manhattan
What’s up late night folks? Here’s an eerie shot I took down a pitch black road in the middle of the night
Extracting from the original tags: this is an 8 minute exposure — it was indeed pitch black
This is really the balance of long exposure photography at night!
Yes, if you let the exposure go long enough, your photo can look like the middle of the day. A sunny day even, depending on the phase phase of the moon & cloud cover.
So, you need to find the balance between a short exposure, capturing very little light, being too dark & long exposures that just look like the daytime
