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>Nocturnal photography (also referred to as night photography) refers to the practice of taking photographs outdoors between dusk and dawn, when natural light is minimal or nonexistent.
>The low-light conditions night photographers work in require specialized techniques to achieve proper exposure, including long exposures—ranging from several seconds to days—higher ISO sensitivity, or artificial lighting.
>The genre encompasses a wide range of subjects, including urban and rural landscapes, architecture, industrial sites, and astrophotography.
Post your night photos!
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>>4509653
Same set up.
Delta 3200 is so grainy and fuzzy it just ruins any detail. These were quick shots to finish the roll, I had brought it to Stockholm for photos of the metro and military museum so didn't do a lot of night photos with it. Not a fan of the ones I did take.
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>>4509597
Just gotta drop a schizo post, sorry.
100 % convinced dogman actually exists. No way I’m shooting in the middle of the night.
Stay away from cemetaries, woods, caves, desolate roads, fields (like corn fields) or honestly anywhere that isnt a well lit busy place at night hours.
Left our national church due to monthly cut from my salary and being non-religious, same day I crash with my bike and sprain my ankle. Never sprained or broke anything before. Parents drove me from the hospital to our rural vacation cabin, and as we were going on a dark country side road all of a sudden some big dog or canine animal just sat on our side of the road, forcing my father to swerve to avoid crashing with it. Dark grey/black fur, huge beard, elongated head. Yeah I don’t know man, cant say what it was im just not going out with the camera at dusk/blue hour/dark unless in a city centre.
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>>4509669
Maybe I'll run across this Dogman character while I'm out in the mist one night... and the only record will be my camera, smashed against the pavement, his visage preserved in a shaky, blurry photograph...
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>>4509870
Nice. Any paranormal sightings to report?
I went out last night and shot street lights and such on a roll of film, excited to see the results. It's being developed at the lab now. I bought a cable release so hopefully that will help my future nocturnal film shots.
What's your process? Digital or film? You take a tripod? Any other accessories or gadgets you find useful or indispensable? I do have a headtorch but I don't make as much use of it as I could, I usually rely on my phone torch.
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>>4509871
>Nice. Any paranormal sightings to report?
Nah, just cars fucking up my shots
>I went out last night and shot street lights and such on a roll of film, excited to see the results. It's being developed at the lab now. I bought a cable release so hopefully that will help my future nocturnal film shots.
Very nice.
>What's your process? Digital or film? You take a tripod? Any other accessories or gadgets you find useful or indispensable? I do have a headtorch but I don't make as much use of it as I could, I usually rely on my phone torch.
Digital, nah no tripod, I need to get one though so I can take exposures and get less noise in my night photos
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>>4511262
IBIS and a fast lens. Stand still, shoot at like f2 or f1.4 and 1/15th of a second. Drag the shadows up a little in post. On modern cameras it's really easy. Use a tripod if you want even slower speeds and lower iso.
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>>4511553
the contrast on these is so low
black is just a somewhat dark gray
I like the composition on the second, a good example of effective centre framing that really makes the place feel like it's in the middle of not just nowhere but non-existence. the graininess and faded image quality aid that too.
>>4509654
this composition is so good it carries the low contrast and grain on its shoulders. it's very layered: the grass, the road, the fence, the lights, then the statue and building like crowns.
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Yesterday went on trying a couple of night photography. It was raining so it was hard to hold the camera still and hold the umbrella lol
Also, wanted to get the top of the house on frame, but the vf is shitty while using glasses and it’s raining.
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>>4511780
crazy how such a small detail RUINS an otherwise excellent pic, i feel bad for you son
>it was hard to hold the camera still and hold the umbrella lol
it's been raining heaps the last few days and I' considering going out with umbrella, I just can't imagine how I'd actually make it work. I need two hands to manipulate the tripod I have. I could hold the camera in one hand and umbrella in the other, skip the tripod, but that does come at the cost of some image quality... and that's really the whole point.
honestly this kind of picture would be an excellent use for generative AI - let it put the apex on the house, clone the sky and boom, pic is saved.
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>>4511783
It was really disappointing get home and see that tiny bit missing on the top of the house… I liked the outcome but still feels that it misses that part lol
> it's been raining heaps the last few days and I' considering going out with umbrella, I just can't imagine how I'd actually make it work.
Basically, I was holding the umbrella between my left forearm and the body and supporting with my head lol as I was taking the picture with the camera holding thigh against my forehead. That’s another reason why I couldn’t see well through the VF
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>>4511780
I’ve took other 4 photos, I’m going to post. They are floating on the grading, I’m experimenting on it as I’m not used to photograph at night. Any suggestions and opinions are welcome. Thanks!
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>>4511999
I guess the low light forces to use a wide aperture. Probably, if using a tripod you could close the aperture and use a lower shutter speed and more things would be in focus. I guess could be one of the reasons.
Also, the foreground could suffer a little more from shaking, as it would be more perceptible.
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>>4513010
In order of benefit
>tripod
Depending on how far you want to go, you can turn apsc into better than GFX
>good IBIS
In practice, can get me 5ish stops over simply handholding
>faster lens
1-4 stop bonus depending on what you're comparing, but limited by what DoF you want
>sensor size upgrade
1-2 stop bonus depending on what you're comparing
FF with good IBIS and a fast lens is the best practical option, but if you are willing to use a tripod, basically any camera will do
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>>4513023
>tripod
a fools game, ranges from frowned upon to explicitly disallowed, makes you a target, and it cant make a shitty camera better because the better medium format camera will just shoot at iso 100 (64 equivalent) and still have the 100mp advantage covering aliasing resistance and noise reduction/sharpening quality. frequent use of bracketing just to race to the stupidest way to take a photo.
>good IBIS
blurs edges <35mm
>faster lens
shooting wider works if shit is further away, but most fast lenses are not corrected to shoot landscapes and city skylines at a true f1.4. only high end full frame and medium format primes do this. and maybe five crop lenses that cost $1500.
>sensor size
1-2.5 stops of photon shot noise, better color depth and shadow recovery, assuming progressive improvements. equivalence is only theoretical and select ff models will expose brighter at the same settings as well. but older and video-centric full frame cameras can actually have worse noise (other than PSN), color depth and shadow recovery than select crop sensors, so you cant just blindly buy the newest canosnoy or the older canikon and hope for the best.
the actual secrets to night photography:
1 - Just underexpose retard
2 - Go to a city thats so bright squinty eyed people can get around unaided
3 - longer lenses take brighter photos with the same subject and camera position
4 - zooms typically take darker photos than primes
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>>4513046
Im sorry but there’s no magic purchase and most of the night photos you think are cool were shot with 800 speed film, handheld. Just go somewhere with lights, underexpose, dont use a zoom, and stay away from wide angles unless wanted because they actually gather less overall light from further away.
Needing medium format, a super pro tier fast prime, 8 stop IBIS and shit is for exposing night as day and improving sharpness and documentary value for shitty soulless commercial photography.
Ill say it again
most of the night photos you think are cool were shot with 800 speed film, handheld
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>>4513063
Are you going to fight off boris the bear when he grabs your tripod and $2000 crop cope machine, and is set to beat you with it? Nope. He is hopping on his electric bicycle and fencing it for meth money.
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