Shooting night scene without using flash is not a difficult task to do but you need to know how. Many of us use flash when taking still photo but that will cause discolouration of the natural colour being too bright. But if we don't use flash the object appear too dark. Here are some easy tips for film camera and digital camera.
1. If your camera (film or digital) is very basic which means you can't choose the shutter speed, exposure, and aperture what you need to do is to avoid bright background. This is very important because bright background will actualy make your subject appear darker on your photo.(almost all digital camera can set exposure and iso sensitivity setting. If so set to higher exposure and higher sensitivity.)
2. Try to make use of surrounding light. But that does not mean you have to move the light and what you do is to change your position where the light is facing your subject. In other word the best thing to do is to stand infront of the light source but do not obstruct the light. Squat if you are obstructing the light.
3. Keep your hand and subject still. Shaky hand often result in blurry image. Use tripod if your hand is shaky or find a place to put your camera on it. If you can find a rock with a flat surface that is good enough but if you can find a table or chair it is even better.
4. For digital camera, if your camera is able to choose night scene mode than set it to night scene mode.
5. If you can choose custom shutter speed of your camera (film or digital) then first thing to do is to set to manual shutter or the mode which you are able to set the shutter speed. Then choose the shutter speed ranging from 1/2-1/20 for dim condition. 1/2 very dim - 1/20 lightly dim. If the condition is very dark you must choose an even lower shutter speed 8" or lower.
6. In addition, the exposure setting must be set higher if the condition is too dark. Aperture setting which is the choke that control the amount of light reaching the film or sensor can be set bigger for dark setting.
7. If you have a digital camera, you can practice using the this tips over and over again until you master it.
8. When choosing the film for camera you must choose film with higher iso sensitivity.
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