Night photography.

I am becoming increasingly aware of some beatiful scenes around me when I am walking home in the last tiny bit of natural light. Things I wouldn't normally look at seem quite transformed and I would like to be able to capture them but haven't the foggiest how to go about dealing with street light and neon signs to get the sort of moody images I am after and properly reproduce what I am seeing.

Any hints or tips would be gratefully recieved.

I googled (night photography videos ) and this is just one of many I came up with

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/in...otography-4717

Video

http://www.ephotozine.com/photograph...-at-night-2136

Bazza

Thanks Barry.

or here

http://www.dslrtips.com/workshops/Ho...exposure.shtml

I managed some really nice stuff with churches, floodlit etc - but it was trial and error and manual settings I'm afraid... can barely remember what I did. Would love to see what you come up with though

xx

Daisy .........go to flickr ,search for the type of picture you want to take, then read their exif

take this on for eg http://www.flickr.com/photos/nafaziram/2978707599/

once open click on "sony dsc-h9"

or this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/aruk5/6660775907/meta/

once open click on "pentax k-x"

only pictures with the camera used will show exif file

I have not much experience of night-time photography but I think a lot of it is trial and error.

The last time I really had to do some was for a pub landlord who wanted some pictures of his pub, day & night. It was back in the film days and for the night ones I used a starburst Hoya square filter to give the external lighting that starry effect.

Quite effective and he was well pleased with the results.

NO!!, I am not going up in the loft to find the transparencies to scan

Steve

I only tried it once, went to Kielder to try for star rotation, set every thing up and pressed the shutter, 30 mins later the shutter had not fired, so i packed up and set off home with the gear in the boot, about another 30 minutes later i head the shutter go off in the car boot.

I didnt have a clue, so ive never tried since, so good luck Daisy, but no advice from me

Thanks everyone.

Everything I read says 'tripod' and since I am primarily after urban shots I am going to have to think out a decent security strategy. There are a lot of wierdo's in town/city centres after dark and if you set up a tripod and all your 'gubbins' well it leaves you a bit vulnerable.

Need to arrange a posse!

I'll keep you informed.

Good thinking Cakey, thanks!