marklim said:
hmm.. i will be trying what sammy888 said. however, if i want to caputre a picture of my gal, then how to minimize blurring??
Follow what espn mentioned too heh.. You should check out some of his example in his link to see that without using a flash you can still shoot in the night.
If anything looking at what he shot, you must know stalls will be well lit too. They have to. They need to make sure people see what they sell heheh.. If you are using a DSLR and you can up the ISO abit more, I see no reason why you should not. At this point if you are new to night shooting. Don;t put so much pressure on yourself to straight away get any good shots the first time you do it. I have been to Chinatown and have yet to shoot anything I like so far. Sometime it is luck if you are at the right place at the right time....you could get lucky the first time at it too.
Have you seen some of those movie shots or protrait..etc. They sometime use grainy effect give the picture that old or rustic or moody mode. It works kinda well with those single light source or where you find isolated light sources that mix with shadow and dim lit faces or side lighting...Well that is just some bits here and there. The things is to look beyond just thinking within what your camera can do. You have to learn to look with your mind/eyes way before you bring your camera up to your eye to shot heheh... Camera is a tool. The idea and creative comes from you. Think it up then work it in your mind and then work out how you want to shoot that shot with your camera.
If you are not able to capture a picture that is well lit in the background while shooting picture of your girlfriend, then make sure that at the very least, take some shots of her with the flash even if the flash might over power the lower lit background. At least you have something heh. Hint: Try to open up abit more with the apeture ( don;t be too overly concern about depth of field so much) Get her to hold her pose alot more rigid then usual to compensate for the longer exposure time like 1/15 or even abit longer. If it is a strain on her facial expression to hold it too long. Get her to take a break. YOu can get her to do this before you shoot. Something I use to do when I go fashion shoot eon ago. Get her to close her eyes, relax and not smile. Then when you are ready, ask her to open her eyes and smile and look into the camera. She would be relax enough that her eyes and smile will look very natural and she can hold it abit longer and still for the longer exposure time.
You can also use fill-in flash but set to Shutter Speed prority but set it to about 1/3. You can also maybe use ISO 400. The thing is to experiment lah. With a DSLR you can preview on the spot if you got it right or not. Take a few more shots of each pose if you have to so you can bring them home to take a look at them and learn to improve by looking over what you did right or wrong. If you take all bad shots..so what...heheh not the end of the world lah.
Enjoy the learning process.....and you will be on your way to shooting as good as espn. He talk the talk of an amature but look at what he shoots , you know he is alot wiser then he lets on 99% of the time heh.. Study his shoots for some ideas.
