Tips for taking photos at a fair at night
 

Hi All,

Like most towns we have a annual fair for a few weeks in October. I want to get those shots where you see the rides blurred at night with plenty of bright lights.

I will of course take a tripod, any advice on shutter speeds/ / ISO settings?

Cheers,

Dave

It depends on the light levels and what shutter speed/ Aperture you use. If you have any ND grads then you could use them as well. I used ND grads so reducing the shutter speed to about two seconds, but you can get blur at 60/s handheld. Set up you camera on a tripod, select you Aperture at F11 and shutter speed at 30/s then press you shutter button half way and check what Iso you camera shows. Adjust until your Iso is about 200. Take a shot and checked if it's blurred enough, if not reduce your shutter speed 15/s and try again. :D

Thanks for the advice, I will post a few pictures in a few weeks once the fair have been.

Thanks OldBoy. I always ran into this problem as well. I didn't realize changing the shutter speed would affect the blurring so drastically! :) ( I am fairly new to photography).

The number one rule of night scenes is stability. A heavy, sturdy tripod is a great start. If you have a cheap flimsy tripod, invest a few bucks in sand bags and stabilize it like you’re ready for hurricane season. A cable release (or “remote switch”) is highly recommended, since pressing the button to take the picture is often the main source of camera shake and, ultimately, blur. If you don’t have a remote switch for your camera, put your camera in timer mode so the shutter will release a few seconds after you press the button. Canon wised up and added a 2 second timer mode on their newer cameras for this purpose so you don’t have to wait the full ten seconds every time you want a stable release.


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[url]http://www.photographytalk.com/photography-articles/225-photographing-night-scenes[/url]

Oh, i am puzzled by this problem so long time,