Challenging night photography with cheap digital camera models

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The night and changing lighting conditions are so that you cannot make rules that ensure success in our cheap digital camera pictures, because what is true for a moment we would certainly not for a few minutes later, but there are some guidelines that can help us to get better results. In this article, and all the above, we just try to give you some tips for when you go out to photograph the night, you know grasp in all its beauty.

Tips for photographic outings night

Study the field. Set a day convenient to visit the place you're going to take pictures at night, to find locations and preview frames, to identify any hazards or land access. Choose the right conditions. The weather, moon phase, tides, if you're going to the coast are things predictable and that we should value our output to be as fruitful and successful.

Remember:

-         Do not go alone. It is not advisable to go alone, for safety and in case you have any minor accident or a fall, plus it's not bad a little chat while waiting for the long exposure times.

-         Bring a flashlight. And take extra cheap digital camera batteries for it, if the session is extended should be guaranteed a return home or car without additional risks.

-         Plan the trip. Do not overload with unnecessary things, you need only a cheap digital camera, warm clothing, spare batteries, a small bottle of water, a top mobile phone charged and especially telling someone where you’re going out and you are going.

Technical tips

Use the lowest ISO that your cheap digital camera supports. The night photography, for his long exposures, causes the appearance of the "Photo Noise", a grain similar to that produced when shooting at very high ISO values, hence the desirability of reducing the ISO sensitivity not to increase the effect beyond what desirable. Never use auto ISO, if in doubt check the manual of your camera.

Use a sturdy tripod and a heating trigger or a remote control to not cause vibration when the shutter of the camera, it is also convenient to use the lift mirror if your camera is an SLR and has this option. Cover the eye of the camera. The unwanted light entering the eye is very easy to avoid covering the eye, almost all cameras have a cap for it and in his absence any other method is valid, a piece of duct tape for example.