Shooting at night...

[Wildernessphoto]

What techniques, film speed (ISO), type of lens, shutter speeds do you use when shooting in low light, or in the dark??

Do you use a timer? cable? tripod? remote?
Let us know what sucesses and falures you have had.

The Photography of Gary F. Dean

[mtgoat]

I like ASA 200 and truely miss K64 for night shooting. I used to use a cable and/ or timer but have moved on to a remote. Shooting at night is always an experiment and you never know what you will get till you pull the fill from the rinse drum.

[Backpacker]

When I shoot at night I use a tripod and the timmer along with many different shutter speeds to get the shot I like. Now that I use a ditigal more than my 35 I shoot a lot more pictures, it will suprise you on how much your shot will change by moving up or down a couple of shutter speeds.

[hamsinn]

Provia

I shoot Provia 100 at night. A helpful pro lab guy noticed I was shooting some night shots and recommended I try it. He said (and I agree) that it renders artificial light much more accurately than other types of film.

Attached pic = Provia 100

[Dave K]

Using film I tried both 100 and 200 speed, either with a remote or timer. I just got these digital shots last weekend (up on Cranberry Lake), experimenting with my Digital for the first time. A couple were fire illuminated only, one was both fire and coleman lantern, and one was goofing with a laser pointer.

[Jeff]

Dave, nice night pics. These were using a digital camera? What kind/type and how many megapixels?

[lumberzac]

Taken with an Olympus C-5060 WZ, 5.1 mega pixels.


Fire

[Dave K]

Mine were taken with a Nikon Coolpix 3200. Bought the camera for taking PC and Web quality pics but I've ended up using the thing for all around point and shoot duty. Nice little camera with solid low light metering, by brothers Olympus tended to overexpose unless he manually adjusted it but after a bit of twiddleing he was able to get comparable performance. All the shots I took were in full auto mode.

Here's a fire only shot... I found that digital night images would work out as long as the exposure was less than about 2 seconds, more than that and the noise floor would be too high to get a good image.

[Jeff]

This shot was taken using my HP Photosmart 635; 2.1 MegaPixel all on automatic settings.

[redhawk]

About to rename this thread "Pyromania"

Why am I not surprised that Jeff would be posting a picture of fire?