Naked tips for christmas light photo

Here are the tips for you who wants to taking photo of christmas light. from slrphotographyguide.

Recommended SLR camera settings for Christmas lights at night

• Use either a macro or an all purpose wide angle lens. A macro is useful if you want to seclude any one ornament or decoration. Where as a wide angle lens is great if you want to get the whole house into the picture.
• It’s also a good idea to use a tripod, as the shutter speed will be too slow for sharp hand held shots.
• Set your camera on manual mode with a low as possible aperture f number. For example anywhere between f/2.8 to f/4.6 will be sufficient.
• For starters set the ISO to 400. Depending on how dark you want the images to be, you can adjust this later on. It’s never recommend going higher than 800 however, due to loss of photo quality the higher the ISO.
• There are two ways to adjust the shutter speed. Firstly, you can focus the camera at part of the house that isn’t too dark or too light and adjust the exposure. If you’re not sure what I mean by exposure we have a tutorial on it at: How to use manual mode. If you like a darker photograph, then underexpose the settings by around 2 or 3 stops.

  Or you can take a bit of a punt and initially set the shutter speed to around 1/50th of a second, then adjust it give and take from there. If the photograph seems too dark for your liking, then choose a slower speed (up to say 1/25th of a second). If it’s too light then choose a faster speed. As the night gets darker and light changes you may need to adjust this.