Comments on: SLR Photography – Taking Pictures at Night

By: Mason Biery

Mason Biery — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:24:17 +0000

I have a 1977 or 76 Yashica FX-2 SLR film camera and I live in the foothills of california and just down the road from me there are diffrent roads that have a great view of all most the entire valley floor from north to south. On a good night just about the entire valley floor is lit up with all the twinkleing lights from all the towns and houses and what not. Its the best veiw ever and I get to see it every night cause I am a newspaper carrier. My question is that I need help taking a night shot of it with my yashica. I tried some shots with it and havent developed the roll yet. I still have some shots to go. But its just pretty hard for me. Can you help me lol?

By: Ramra Kuruvilla

Ramra Kuruvilla — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:58:10 +0000

The moment I found your page was like wow. Thanks for putting your effort in making this post.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:59:44 +0000

Thank you for providing so many tips, they are great and a bit help. I know only light and shutter speed before reading this article and now learn a lot. I will practise it as soon as possible.

By: david@engagement rings

david@engagement rings — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:38:26 +0000

I am new to photography. So this is so helpful. very good article. can read easily. thanks a lot I am waiting for new posts.

By: Aura Herschel

Aura Herschel — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:18:07 +0000

I would hope to be back tracking. Thanks for the great write-up.

By: Brennah L

Brennah L — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:22:03 +0000

sorry, I figured out the “F” setting . but any other advice would be very apprecited.

Brennah

By: Brennah L

Brennah L — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:16:15 +0000

I know this is going to sound dumb, but What is the “f” setting and how do you change it.. I just got a sony Alpha 380 for christmas and i love photography but havent done any real shoots but im going to europe and i would love to get some great night shots like that while im over there. any advice for me, i put it in M mode and i know how to change the iso but how do i change the other settings you were talking about. thanks, any advice will help. Brennah

p.s. do you think i should take a tripod.. we are backpacking for 37 days … all around europe.

By: Joel P

Joel P — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:21:00 +0000

One thing you can do, when taking star photography for example, zoom in and focus on a star then once focused change to manual focus on your lense (if able) then you can take the phot without it having to focus again.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:39:55 +0000

Hi Connor –

Yes, if you are photographing a person within range of the flash (not far away), you would use the automatic focusing feature of the camera, which flashes light onto the subject during the focusing process.

This doesn’t work so well for candids or during parties, as the flashes are distracting. But if your subject is posing, this is the way to do it.

Your camera might also have custom settings for this, which you could experiment with.

By: Connor

Connor — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:32:55 +0000

Anna,

Thanks for your reply! It has helped thankyou, understand it more now! I wasn’t focusing in sufficient light before hand which was probably the problem! I am going to go out tonight and give it a shot:) Just wondering, what if i was in pitch black and wanted to take a picture of something while using the flash as my light source? For example a person? I guess i would just have to turn of auto focus or something?

Thanks again!