Tips for Night Photography

Tips for Night Photography

Now I thought that this was something wrong with me or my camera.. because A: I was on the beach and subject to wind and blowing sand.

What happened was, I set up my tripod, set my settings on my camera (long exposure...but I will go into that in a later post) and took my shots. But what came out was a photo with tiny hot spots. Now since I really have no experience with night work at all, and was using my time at the beach with all the lights and such to work on it... I had no idea about hot spots. See what I mean in the photo below.

So this morning I posted over at Northeast Foto to find out what I did wrong... or if something was wrong with my camera... like sand getting in somewhere or something.

According to Orgnoi1 this is what they told me: Those are hot pixels from doing a long exposure... when you take the shots you will need to turn on your long exposure noise reduction in the camera... but for now you can just clone them out in PS or PSP...

Unfortunately almost all cameras have hot pixels... so its just one of those things you have to deal with...

And since I run a Nikon D100 the setting I am looking for is over at: just a FYI... the setting you will use is under the custom functions menu on your camera... its CSM #4

So there you have it... if you are not familiar with night shooting, and you come across this problem... this is why. Its not you or your camera...