hoosier40000
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hey, im a beginning photographer and i am still trying to figure out everything. my current struggle is how to take good photos at night. the last few i have tried developed too dark.
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Well not for skylines, I wasn't sure if the original poster was referring to night photography as in skylines and highways, or action shooting which would need the high isos.Mumfandc said:Night photos are really something that you can only learn through experience.
ISO 3200/6400 is really more than you need.
The light meter built into your camera (I'm asuming) will probably already know what ISO film you have loaded so use it to your advantage. The key fact that has been mentioned is to expose any detail at night, you're going to have to expose for a long time (running into the seconds instead of the fractions of a second you'd use during the day). Hence the need for a tripod to avoid a blurred image from camera shake.My photography professor taught us to start at ISO 400 8sec. @ f8 for things like skylines at night as a starting point.