To take your first night pictures, do this:
1. Mount your camera on a tripod. Your exposure times will be a half second or longer;
there is absolutely no way you can hold the camera for that amount of time without
introducing an incredible amount of blur.
2. Switch your camera to its manual exposure mode, if it has one. Set the aperture to a
medium setting, such as f/5.6. Set the shutter speed to 1/2.
3. Point the camera at something interesting. If this is the ?¬? rst time you are trying night
photography, I suggest you go to a fairly busy intersection downtown and frame the
street and a store or two in your view?¬? nder.
4. When a car is about to enter your view?¬? nder, take the picture. You should be able
to get fairly instant feedback on how your picture came out by looking at it in the
camera??™s LCD display. No matter how good or bad the picture came out, do not
delete it.
5. Now double the shutter speed. Try an exposure of 1 second, and shoot the same
scene again.
6. Take more pictures, varying the shutter speed so you can get a feel for what kind of
results your camera gives at night at various shutter speeds. You will very likely ?¬? nd
that your camera won??™t expose a picture for more than a few seconds; many cameras
limit the shutter speed to 5 or 10 seconds.
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