Do you like taking photos in the dark?
By surajpkn
@surajpkn (581)
India
August 25, 2007 1:01pm CST
Many photos that we see are taken in the light of the sun or whatever. But do you like taking photos in the dark with as much as little light possible? I like to do it because i feel it is creative and more complex than taking simple images in the bright light!
4 responses
@genuinesqueak (325)
• Australia
26 Aug 07
I like taking photo's of trees in the dark. A nice white trunked tree with lots of white limbs, lay under the tree, and with the flash on, take a picture up the tree. It turns out really interesting.
@michaeldadona (5684)
• Malaysia
25 Aug 07
I agree with your likes. As it is not only a creative way but innovative. Innovative means; create new, the extension, duplication and synthesis.
RODS, CONES AND COLOR
Night photos can have a powerful impact because of their vibrant color. At night, your own eyes tend to see things in muted shades of gray, as the human eye is not adept at seeing color in the dark. But your digital camera has no such limitations.
If you expose the picture long enough, you can capture the same bright, vivid colors in low light that you get in the daytime. And since people aren't expecting to see bright colors in low-light situations, you can get some eye-popping results.
BRACKETING YOUR EXPOSURE:-
When you take a picture at night, you'll usually measure your exposure in seconds, not fractions of a second. But since your camera's exposure meter won't give you accurate readings, where do you begin?
I recommend that you set your camera to its manual exposure mode and set the shutter to one second. Take a picture and see what it looks like. Not only will this give you a good idea of how much longer you'll need to expose the scene, but a one-second exposure helps you frame the scene without standing around for fifteen seconds waiting to see what the picture looks like.
After the first shot, you'll be able to fine-tune the framing and adjust your shutter. And don't forget--you don't have to make the shutter stay open longer to introduce more light. If digital noise is a concern, you can open the aperture to let in more light without changing the exposure time. By combining aperture size and shutter speed, you can balance composition factors like light trails and motion in the photo with uniquely digital concerns like digital noise.
So grab your camera some spring evening and try your hand at a nightscape masterpiece!
The Little Me,
Michael.
@pendragon (3348)
• United States
25 Aug 07
Digital cameras with a night mode do take incredible pics after dark, it's kind of neat being able to see what you wouldnt be able to normally.
@theprogamer (10532)
• United States
25 Aug 07
Dark photography is pretty cool. I like some of the great nature scenes at night. Done right, they look fantastic. I'm a real fan of some of the night-only events (pictures of owls, auroras, night and starscapes). I also like some nightvision scenes, imagery.





