Long Exposure Night Street Photography

After adjusting the iso i made an 8 minute exposure right hand.

Long exposure night street photography. The most important tool that you will need is a sturdy tripod along with a dslr camera that allows for long exposures. When you think of the typical street photo it s black and white crisp and captures some candid expression or event in motion if you re good. As a photographer who got his start in the streets of tokyo it was inevitable that i would end up photographing. I ll do a daytime one soon.

To determine exposure options efficiently for this long exposure cityscape i made a high iso test at iso 6400 with the lens closed down to f 16 left hand frame which yielded a decent histogram at 15 seconds. Follow our simple guidelines. 4 second shutter aperture f 11 and iso 100. Whilst a tripod is considered a baseline requirement for many landscape photographers it is even more important when shooting with a 10 stop filter exposures can easily extend to greater than a couple of minutes so it is vital that your tripod is as sturdy as can be.

From there you might adjust the aperture a bit say between f 8 and f 16 and work on the shutter time anywhere from 1 second to 15 seconds depending on how much light is in the scene. A useful technique in night photography is the long exposure. So let s recap the settings for a typical night long exposure photo. Yes you can use a polarizer but avoid neutral density filters.

Some people might conclude that night photography is by default long exposure photography. The effects that can be captured with a long exposure are stunning and have an ethereal quality. Ah the night what a wonderful time to go out and do some street photography. This isn t always the case night street photography tends to follow somewhat different rules for instance but it is what we will focus on this time around.

The best time for long exposures is 25 seconds. At night the city lights up in a display of colours it s the perfect time to practise your long exposure photography skills and capture some light trails. If you put an nd filter on it is going to give you a color cast during long exposures. You ll be photographing light trails left right and centre in no time.

I then calculated the exposure difference needed to capture the same scene at iso 1 00 a 6x difference from 6400 iso. On to the long exposure photography tips tip 1. Don t get me wrong i love nd filters but not at night.