Hello, today I'm going to be looking at Night Photo mode on the GoPro Hero 4+ Black Edition Camera
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Hello, I'm Martin Dorey and you are watching AdoramaTV. Today, I'm going to be looking at using
Night Photo Mode on the GoPro Hero 4 camera. Now it's a new mode that makes
the GoPro Hero 4 a lot more versatile than previous versions. Now on
the hero 3+ for example you can shoot in low light with an ISO up to
6400, which would give you an awful lot of grain but you had no control over your
shutter speed. Now the Hero4 Night Photo Mode gives you that control over
your shutter speed.
Ok, the basic function of night mode is that you can manipulate the shutter
speed, so that you can allow more light to get to the sensor so if your opening
the shutter for one second, part exposure and then opening two seconds you're
doubling the amount of light that you can use, and that means that you can
shoot really, really low light conditions. It also allows you to be more creative and
if you use Pro Tune Mode you know you can still have some control over your ISO
limits, and also your white balance. Ok, let's talk about shooting a still at night. Now your going to do
this just as you would with your DSLR on a long exposure. The first thing you need to
do is make sure that your camera is locked off, clamped on a tripod, and won't
move unless you want it too. Mind you, you can always use the slow shutter speed
to your advantage if you wanted a bit of motion blur, streaklights if you were to say
shooting cars, or as we are going to do later sparklers.
In Night Mode you still have a whole bunch of options that you can shoot at,
so you can shoot at 12 megapixels with a wide angle lens or even 5 megapixels
with a 4 x 3 field of view, the only thing that's different is that you
have the ability to change the shutter speed. The available shutter speed on
Night Mode are auto, which is anything up to two seconds, and then two seconds
five seconds, ten seconds twenty seconds and 30 seconds. It's really easy to find
Night mode using your app or using the menu, just go to Photo Mode and then choose
Night Mode, and from there you'll see that you can go to Pro Tune and also spot
metering. Ok, right, let's get out of here
set it to auto get some night shots.
So I think with the sparklers, the longer exposure works so much better and also as the sun goes down it gets
darker, and the camera is picking up more stuff, so yeah I think that's really quite something
quite something, there - look at that. Brilliant.
Well you know, a success as far as I'm concerned, in this night photo mode but I've
still got some other stuff to try.
And there you go, low-light shots, it's so easy, but, what if you want or need to shoot
shots out of auto mode, with an exposure of longer than two seconds.
well unless you use auto mode you're going to have to use a bit of toing and froing
to get it right.
Used the app to review your pictures and find out how under or over exposed they are.
You won't be able to see from preview mode what you're going to get, so it is
going to take a little bit of experimentation, and don't forget we are
on manual mode here, so it will take a little bit of skill. You may also need to go into
Pro Tune Mode to set your color temperature and also set the ISO limit,
so that you don't get too much grain, now if having fine grain is important to you then
you can set your ISO limit delivered to a hundred and that will reduce it, but also
don't forget, that if you do lower your ISO limit it also means that your shutter speed is going
have to be longer because you're going to need more light, and that means that your
camera's going to be more sensitive to motion, so make sure it's looked off properly.
Let's take a look at the difference between shooting with an ISO of 800 and an ISO of 100
and put them side-by-side, and you can clearly see the grain. But don't forget when you shoot at a lower ISO,
you're going to have a longer shutter speed again so make sure your camera doesn't wobble or shake.
One thing to remember when shooting night mode with the GoPro Hero4, is that when you go beyond the
automatic setting for the shutter speed (i.e.) you shoot at 2, 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds, you will
have to choose the color temperature because the camera will no longer do it
for you automatically. So you can choose either 3000 Kelvin's for warm light, 5500
Kelvin's for daylight, or 6,500 Kelvins for cool light, or
you can choose the native color balance for your camera's sensor now GoPro say that
this will allow you to manipulate the color better, later on.
Ok well, I think that's quite enough for one day, thanks for joining me on Adorama TV
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