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Improving your shooting skills – Shooting guides
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Taking night scene pictures
There are different types of night scenes, ranging from the afterglow of a sunset to city lights at
night. Sunset and fireworks sceneries are also a type of night scene.
Using a tripod
A tripod is a must when shooting night scenes as the shutter
speed is slow due to the darkness.
Even when a tripod is not available, you should also place the
camera on a stable ground such that it does not shake. Even
when the camera is secured, you may also move the camera
when pressing the shutter button. Hence, use the remote control
or self timer to activate the shutter as far as possible.
Changing shooting mode
When taking night scenes, the balance of the brightness in the
composition is not uniform due to the intensity of brightness. As there are
many dark areas, using
P
(program shooting) mode will take a whitish
picture that is overexposed. First of all, use
A
(aperture priority shooting)
mode to take the picture. Set the aperture to the medium setting (about F8
or F11) and leave the shutter speed to the camera. As it is common for the
picture to turn out too bright, adjust the exposure compensation to
-
1 or
-
1.5. Check the aperture and exposure compensation in the
[REC VIEW]
image and change it if necessary. Noise may occur easily when shooting
at slow shutter speeds. Set
[NOISE REDUCTION]
to
[ON]
to reduce the
occurrence of noise.
Using manual focus
For cases when the subject is dark and you cannot focus using AF (auto focus) or when you
cannot focus in time for pictures such as fireworks, set the focus mode to MF (manual focus) and
focus manually. For night scenes, turn the focus ring of the lens and check whether you can see
the street lights clearly. For fireworks, as long as the long focus lens is not used, it is okay to
adjust to infinite. If you know the approximate distance, you can also focus on something that is
found at the same distance in advance.
g
“
P
: Program shooting” (P. 25), “
A
: Aperture priority shooting” (P. 26), “Self-timer
shooting” (P. 40), “Remote control shooting” (P. 41), “Focus mode” (P. 43), “Noise
reduction” (P. 55), “Rec view – Checking the picture immediately after shooting” (P. 69)
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