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Holiday lights - taking pictures of them ...

Postby gpsmikey » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:31 am

Got an interesting email this morning from Ritz camera that included a link to taking pictures of the holiday lights and why "auto" doesn't work - for those interested, here is the link (I have no connection to them, just on their mailing list)

http://www.ritzcamera.com/static/articl ... ights.html

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Re: Holiday lights - taking pictures of them ...

Postby glyn53 » Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:35 am

I've been out this evening and done some lights. I put my camera on aperture priority and the white balance to tungstan on these two.The one of the christmas lights reflecting in the water was a 15sec exposure at f/6.5 and the second one of the pier was a 6sec exposure at f/5.6.
I'm still experimenting and going out tomorrow evening to do many more.

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Re: Holiday lights - taking pictures of them ...

Postby debngar » Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:11 am

IMO of all the tips, the most helpful one for photographing holiday outdoor lights is to capture the scene at twilight, right after the sun goes down when the sky is at it most brilliant blue color and it's not quite completely dark outside. :D

Don't know why this won't appear in the post but this image shows the vivid color at twilight.

http://www.photodex.com/share/debngar/xxbb9mg4
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Re: Holiday lights - taking pictures of them ...

Postby glyn53 » Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:43 pm

debngar wrote:IMO of all the tips, the most helpful one for photographing holiday outdoor lights is to capture the scene at twilight, right after the sun goes down when the sky is at it most brilliant blue color and it's not quite completely dark outside. :D


I'm trying that tomorrow, just as it's getting dark. In fact I'm going to focus on one scene from the sun going down to it been completely dark and see which comes out best :D With a high tide tomorrow I'm hoping to get some excellent night photos of the christmas lights reflecting in the tide.

The pier photo above was taken just after the sun went down, while there was still blue in the sky.

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