Comments on: Christmas Time! How to Photograph Lights

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:48:24 +0000

Your post seems to be helpful even to proffesionals! Well done! No, seriously, it helped me as well:) I can’t make do without tripod any more.

By: Ingrid Owens

Ingrid Owens — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:38:01 +0000

glad to hear it worked out for you Alex! a tripod really can make all the difference.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:05:43 +0000

We recently went around to photograph some of the neighbours christmas lights and they were pleasantly surprised when they saw the images on our camera as opposed to theirs as they simply never knew what night mode (or manual exposure) actually was capable of. We also used a tripod to get their lights to show up nice and clear.

Great article. Happy new year!

By: Ingrid Owens

Ingrid Owens — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:54:44 +0000

Thanks Sheila!

It is best to use a tripod for shooting with Night Mode because of the slow shutter speed – any camera movement will cause blur.

The moon can be tricky a subject and I’d definitely recommend a tripod for that situation, although you might try just turning off your flash and raising your ISO rather than night mode.(you don’t need the final burst of flash)

I’m planning to do a post on How to Photograph the Moon though so watch out for it very soon. The last full moon we had there was too much cloud cover to take a good shot and I hate to put up a tutorial without first having had recent experience of the shot.

By: Sheila Finkelstein

Sheila Finkelstein — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:33:39 +0000

What a precious picture, Ingrid! and thanks for the info on lighting. I greatly appreciate it. Is it best to use a tripod for the NIGHT setting, or if there’s a lot of light it will be OK. When I try full moon shots with my night setting, it’s kind of blurry.