Night photos can be some of the most dramatic photographs that you’ll ever shoot.
City lights can create a beautiful look, with the correct aperture setting.
Shooting photos of fireworks is fun, but needs a long shutter opening.
Capturing photos of your friends during a nighttime party requires a good flash unit.
Shooting those night photos can be a challenge, but having the right equipment and knowing the correct techniques certainly helps.
Try these tips to improve your night photography results.
Light painting is not difficult to learn, doesn't require much experience and is a lot of fun! The idea behind this technique is really simple: while shooting a long exposure photo, move a source of light around, this gets recorded onto the sensor of the camera as an abstract drawing or 'light painting'.
Night photography has an attraction all its own. There's something about scintillating lights from office windows hanging in the dark of the night -- a modern version of the starry skies -- that appeal to us. Whether it's a city skyline, lamp posts on a dark and deserted street, or the front of your house all decked out with holiday lights, the challenge of capturing the mood of a night scene depends on whether your digital camera is capable of night photography and on a couple of simple techniques.