Landscape Photography For Night Time

Jesse Thornton is a photo artist based in West Virginia USA with an interest in natural landscapes long exposure and night photography.

Landscape photography for night time. About the author. In fact it is in many cases quite opposite of regular landscape photography. On the night Step 1.

Focusing for landscape photography can be a challenge especially at night. These recommendations with photo examples will help you avoid many common mistakes and achieve professional results quicker. How to use and balance aperture shutter speed.

Shutter Priority is also perfect for photographing the night sky. Night photography introduces many challenges that are easily avoided during the day like noise blurriness and your cameras hypersensitivity to movement. Youre standing outside in total darkness but the camera display shows something else.

These tips along with beautiful night time photos will help you figure out how to create breathtaking images in no time. What looks right to you will depend on if there is any light pollution or moonlight in your image as well as personal preference. Arrive at your location while its still fairly light to help you easily compose your images.

You dont need a cable release to capture night photography but as you get more advanced it can be a nice piece of gear to have. Photographing the night sky isnt quite as straightforward as one might want though. Set your ISO to a high number.

A cable release plugs into your camera and gives you a button you can press and lock so that the camera can take pictures. To keep it simple Im going to suggest setting your White Balance to Kelvin and then trying anything from 3500 Kelvin to 5000 Kelvin. Luckily modern cameras provide you with an array of night-friendly settings to help get a sharp properly exposed photo of stars planets and night landscapes.