question on architectural dusk shots - newbie

[ak23]

Curious if anyone has a simple answer for me - i am an architect with basic photography skill and I'm tiring to figure out the best way for me to get digital pictures similar to these below - these were from a professional photographer with many lights and hours so i know i can't replicate - I'm looking for the best camera under a $3-400 that could do something like this ?

On another note - I do have an older digital canon that i would like to experiment with and i would like for someone to recommend the best settings for something like this - i have no clue on shutter speeds , exposures etc… can anyone give me a starting point?

 

[GrantH]

First, if these are not your photos...please link to them rather than attach directly. Forum rules.

Send, nothing really screams anything special in these shots. Lights on bright, glass walls, and low ambient lighting will get this for you. Nothing a simple point and shoot with a manual mode won't get you.

 

[ak23]

can u please put the pictures back on - i own the photos - they are projects that we did? please it took me long enough to put them on

 

[ak23]

i have tried the auto function on the canon and it never seems to be as clear or bright? can u give me some of the manual settings?

 

[ak23]

 

[KmH]

can u please put the pictures back on - i own the photos - they are projects that we did? please it took me long enough to put them on

That was not clear in your post.

In fact, 2 of us read this part of your post - "recommend the best settings for something like this" - to mean someone else owned the photos.

Sorry for the confusion.

 

[skieur]

Well, you have shown us the quality you want. Next it would be helpful to post some photos of the quality you are getting with settings: aperture, shutterspeed, etc.

skieur

 

[amolitor]

There's a couple things going on with these particular photos.

Photographer chose an ideal time of day to balance the interior light with the exterior light. By exposing to get the outside of the building "a little underexposed" to get the sensation of the building in the evening, he was able to get a nice brightly exposed interior. This is entirely about choosing the right time of day, and the setting exposure compensation appropriately -- the camera's meter is going to have some notion of what the "right" exposure is, but I don't know what it will be, and it will depend on the camera, how you have the metering set up, and what the camera meters from. You can probably just use manual settings and eyeball it. Set the aperture quite small, f/11 or f/16. Wait until early evening.

Take a bunch of pictures at various shutter speeds, every 10 minutes or so, until it gets fairly dark.

Now review what you've got.

 

[Mully]

You can shoot when the light is ideal for the building ...wait till it gets dark and shoot for the interior lights, I have done this on 4x5 many times .....I can do this in film but not sure how to do it digitally.