Night Dreams Contest Challenge Tutorial amp

I am So excited to be hosting this Contest/Challenge!! Ive been hoping to hold a "Night Shots" anything for some time now and I think everyone can benefit from it!!!
So Lets get to it!!!

Before I give all the rules, dates & prizes I wanted to give an explanation and some tutorials to help those who have never tried to do this before..

This Contest is to help you broaden your art skills. The theme is "Trees at Night" Please note that while this explanation/tutorial will be based on photography this contest will be open for all art mediums!!! photography, traditional, digital crafts you name it!!

How to Shoot at Night
Pictures taken at night often take on a more creative and inviting look than daytime pictures due to the creative lighting that illuminates the scene. Many of you can take a great Night time Photograph with no timers settings as long as your light source is bright enough.. (like a street lamp) If you have a dimmer Light source such as stars, fire works or lightning its best to use your manual settings to keep your shutter open longer. Also a tripod would be very helpful because the slightest movement while your shutter is open can cause a blurry image. (if you don't have a tripod cheat!! set your camera on anything steady! car hood mail box the ground if you can make the angle right... Be creative!)

If your camera has any manual setting look at them closely and find where your ISO setting is at.. set it to the lowest number you have. (this will create less noise) This next part is all about practice so be prepared to take lots of Photos. You will have too fool with your shutter speeds. is you have a bright light source set it to something pretty quick or it will become over exposed if you let too much light in. if it is dimmer set it to a longer time 1 second, 3 second and upwards. If your doing star trail look at it this way.. if you have a 3 second shutter speed you star trails won't be very long.. the longer you keep your shutter open the longer the star trails!

That pretty much covers the basic I know of.
Please if you have some tips for night shooting please leave your comments in this blog and I will add them!!

If you want a more in depth Photograph tutorials on shooting night time here are some great tutorials for you

fc04.deviantart.net/fs12/f/200… Night photography Tutorial by ehlo PDF

photo.net/travel/night-photogr… Night Photography Tutorial from Photo.net

www.slrphotographyguide.com/ca…

infernal-moltres.deviantart.co… Night Photography Tutorial by infernal-moltres

I hope these help and if you have any questions at all please ask and I will try to help you the best I can!!


Now Here is the blog for The actual contest!!
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