what's going on guys today we're gonna talk about what to do to set up your
camera for nighttime photography so there's two ways you can shoot at night
the first way is using a tripod so you can take your camera put it on a tripod
all right make sure it's nice and secure not moving at all alright it has to be
very very secure so make sure you tighten everything on the tripod the
next thing you want to do is compose your shot so move your camera around
find the exact spot that you want look through the viewfinder zoom in and zoom
out okay now you're gonna want to start with your camera on autofocus okay
look through the viewfinder and get the focus just right once you get your focus
right what you're gonna want to do is then put your camera on manual focus all
right so it's focused in on the image with autofocus and then just switch that
dial to manual focus either on the lens or on the camera depending on what you
use once you get your camera just the way you want the next thing you have to
do is adjust your ISO I recommend you move your ISO as low as possible or to
its native ISO for me in this camera it's 200 your camera might be 100 or 50
but just move it really low you want it as low as possible when using a tripod
alright now that you have your shot composed you have your ISO as low as
possible the next thing you're gonna do is adjust the aperture okay or the
f-stop so this is completely arbitrary alright if you want a really shallow
depth of field and only a tiny portion just your subject in focus and the rest
of the photo blurry and out of focus choose a low f-stop number like F 2.8 F
4 F 3.5 F 1.8 if you have that alright once you choose your f-stop or your
aperture the next thing you want to do is just adjust your shutter speed so
just adjust your shutter speed until you get the right exposure that you want so
if it's too dark you want to make the shutter a lot slower
for example if your photos dark at one 125th of a second you want to go down to
maybe one thirtieth of a second or maybe even one second switch your camera to
timer mode so you go to timer mode where it's gonna take several seconds to take
a photo all right then what you want to do is just click the shutter and then
just wait and I'll take a photo for you that's all there is to it now here's the
thing if you're taking a picture where there's water or where there's cars or
where there's something moving and you want that moving thing to be very blurry
and have a nice soft or blurry kind of effect what you want to do is change
your shutter speed you want to make your shutter speed much slower so maybe at
like three seconds or five seconds or even ten or fifteen seconds this camera
goes all the way up to thirty seconds so you can try that too
however when you shoot with a really slow shutter speed you're gonna let in a
lot of light so then you're gonna have to probably change your aperture to
something like f11 or something with much wider depth of field so you're
gonna have everything in focus that's just the way it is all right so if
you're shooting at like 2.8 you're gonna have to change that to at least like f/8
or f/11 or f-16 depending on how it's exposed and how much slow shutter you
really want to use ok the second way is to get rid of the tripod just take off
your camera and for shooting at night just with handheld you're gonna want to
change your ISO completely so okay so at nighttime when you're shooting handheld
the first thing you want to do is raise the ISO to at least 800 all right so put
that 800 as like a mark to see where it's at and then you want to usually
lower the aperture to the the lowest F number you can
or around the lowest number so that could be F 1.4 F 1 point 8 F 2 point 8 I
think F 2 point 8 2 F 4 is a good range so if you can do this on your camera
lower it down to F 2 point 8 2 F 4 depending on which lens you're using so
after you do that you want to change the shutter speed to be at least the same
number as the length of your lens so for example if you're using a 50 millimeter
lens you want the shutter speed to it be at least one fiftieth of a second or
faster if you're using a 200 millimeter lens you want the shutter speed to be at
least one two hundredth of a second or faster okay then what you're gonna do is
you're gonna take a picture you're gonna see how it is most likely it's gonna be
a little underexposed or dark so then what you're gonna want to do is raise
the ISO up alright so you're gonna raise it from eight hundred to maybe sixteen
hundred maybe thirty two hundred alright and then you're gonna take the picture
now the thing about raising the ISO up your images are gonna look a little
grainy or not as sharp okay a little noisy so that's why I recommend you use
a tripod because you can keep the ISO as low as possible but sometimes like on a
full moon or when there's it's not super dark outside and there are around a
place where there are a lot of lights you can shoot handheld however if it's
really really dark I recommend you use a tripod
alright guys I hope this quick tutorial was helpful about how to set up your
camera to shoot at nighttime I'll be doing a much longer tutorial about how
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