Techniques for shooting night views with a Canon 50D camera

I would like to give you a detailed analysis of the techniques used by the Canon 50D camera to take night views.

Tips:

 

 

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Camera: EOS 50D

Lens: EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Automatic aperture first exposure (F8, 0.8 seconds)

Exposure compensation:-1.3EV

White balance: Automatic

ISO 100

Photo Style: Standard

Step 1: Select a lens with better lighting effect

 

 

When shooting night scenes, the light source is often used as the main subject, which puts forward high requirements on the imaging performance of the lens. The camera must be able to correctly reproduce the "point" as a "point Image", which can be said to be the first step to the success of night scene photography. In this case, the "three muskeys" (EF 16-35mm f/2.8L ii usm, EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L is usm) L zoom lens combination. When shooting a night scene, the shooting location is often limited. Therefore, it is more suitable to use a zoom lens than a fixed focal lens. In addition, the zoom lens can also feature close-up of the subject or display a large range of the entire revenue screen with rich expressiveness. If you have three muskeys, you can basically cover all the scenarios.

Step 2: install a lens mask to reduce the effect of peripheral light

 

 

In addition to the subject, various light sources often exist around the scenes. If extra light is injected into the lens, it will cause adverse effects due to backlight. In particular, it is hard to notice the impact of street lights on the camera. When a wide-angle lens is used to capture a wide range of income images, more effective measures must be taken to reduce the impact of backlight. When talking about lens masks, people often think that they are used during the day when the sun is strong, but in fact they can effectively avoid the impact of the lens on the interference light source at night. In principle, lens masks should be used in all scenarios.

Step 3: confirm the brightness in real time through exposure simulation

 

 

During real-time display shooting, the brightness of the final image can be confirmed before shooting because the light received by the image sensor is used to measure the exposure. In particular, when shooting night scenes, use exposure compensation to control the brightness of the image. The usual method is to intentionally make the exposure inadequate to obtain the special effect of the night scene. In this case, if you use the exposure simulation function, you can easily adjust the exposure to get your desired brightness. The legend uses this function to confirm the image and set the final exposure compensation value to-1.3EV.

Step 4: Check the mute shooting settings again

 

 

The so-called mute shooting is the combination of electronic front curtain shutter and mechanical rear curtain shutter to control the exposure, is unique to Canon (some models are not used ). The action of the mechanical front curtain shutter is replaced by the circuit inside the image sensor. It can suppress shutter motion noise and vibration. When shooting a night scene, the vibration produced by the camera is a fatal enemy. In order to accurately imaging the point light source as a "point", the settings of the mute shooting should be confirmed again. Because you do not need to control the shutter return action when shooting the night scene, you can usually use "mode 1". If you care about the sound and vibration of the shutter return action, you can try to use Mode 2 to control when the shutter is returned.

Step 5: focus properly before dawn

 

 

Be sure to make preparations before performing night photography. It is best to finish focusing when it is still on. This is because if you focus on the dark, it is difficult to grasp the overall attention, and some mistakes may occur to the subject. Even when the surrounding environment is dark, the real-time display of the EOS Digital SLR camera is very clear. Impression simulation refers to the reproduction of the image brightness on the LCD monitor with the image brightness that would have taken a few seconds of exposure, so it is easy to produce noise. While the EOS Digital SLR camera not only has the advantage of less noise, and easy focus is also its charm.

Key points:

Ultra-precision focus, giving full play to the power of high-pixel models, and using mute shooting to completely eliminate jitter

The advantage of using real-time display when shooting a night scene is that various simulations can be performed before shooting. As you can understand the exposure, focus, white balance, and other situations in real time, you can take advantage of extremely limited shooting time more effectively. In addition, Canon's unique mute shooting function is also very effective. Compared with a low-vibration system that uses a mechanism to delay the shutter action, it has a fundamental difference in principle and has a great advantage. The EOS Digital SLR camera, which uses the mute shooting function, has very low vibration and motion noise during shooting, and has superior performance. It is not only effective when using a wide-angle camera, even if you use a remote camera, you can fully experience its good effects. In the past, when shooting night scenes, we thought that the camera was not touched during the exposure and the method of pre-rising mirror could effectively prevent jitter. However, along with the emergence of the real-time display and mute shooting functions, it can be said that photography techniques have developed rapidly. The new features should be skillfully applied during ultra-precision focus to maximize the high-definition features of the EOS Digital SLR Series.

Advanced Skills

 

 

When shooting a photo body vulnerable to high-light overflow, such as a white tower or a huge stone image, the "high-light tone first" function should be actively used. Because Image processing avoids the overflow of the highlights, it is easier to determine the overall exposure. In addition, for scenes with extremely high brightness, you can set the photo style to "neutral" to further suppress the overflow of the highlight part.

All right, the above information is the detailed analysis and sharing of the techniques for shooting night views by Canon 50D cameras for photography enthusiasts, I believe that you are now very clear about the shooting skills, so all of you will try to take a beautiful night view photo by yourself according to the tips provided above.