Light streaks
 

Hopefully the right part of the forums to ask this. :)

I shot the following photograph, which I'm pretty pleased with, especially as it's the first time I really started to push the camera with low light photography.

However, I notice in this shot that where there are street lights, it has caused streaks in the photograph vertically up and / or down from the lights. What did I do wrong in this shot or is it a camera limitation? I use a UV filter on the lens to protect it / make it easy to clean. Other than that, nothing else. Was it the camera settings that contributed to this? Should I have upped the ISO more and used more noise reduction in-camera. This was shot hand-held.

[URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/87042234@N07/8197414184/in/photostream"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/87042234@N07/8197414184/in/photostream[/URL]

Nice picture and the pictures shows your experience in photography.In this picture clock is looking totally clear and the white ball as well.

[QUOTE=D700guy;84731]Hopefully the right part of the forums to ask this. :)

I shot the following photograph, which I'm pretty pleased with, especially as it's the first time I really started to push the camera with low light photography.

However, I notice in this shot that where there are street lights, it has caused streaks in the photograph vertically up and / or down from the lights. What did I do wrong in this shot or is it a camera limitation? I use a UV filter on the lens to protect it / make it easy to clean. Other than that, nothing else. Was it the camera settings that contributed to this? Should I have upped the ISO more and used more noise reduction in-camera. This was shot hand-held.

[URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/87042234@N07/8197414184/in/photostream"]http://www.flickr.com/photos/87042234@N07/8197414184/in/photostream[/URL][/QUOTE]

Hi,

The starburst effect you're referring to is caused by light catching the edges of the aperture blades. The smaller the aperture you use the more pronounced the starburst effect becomes. I wouldn't worry about, in fact I deliberately use a small aperture to get this effect with my night time shots.

[QUOTE=Axele;84906]Nice picture and the pictures shows your experience in photography.In this picture clock is looking totally clear and the white ball as well.[/QUOTE]

I consider myself an advanced beginner, still make mistake shots in full manual mode before I get the perfect ISO / Shutter/ Apature settings. Lucky RAW shooting comes to rescue, especially in changing light :o

Although, I've read the magazine that suggest it's not a total failure if you use Apature or Shutter priority instead of manual.

[QUOTE=ianpinion;84910]Hi,

The starburst effect you're referring to is caused by light catching the edges of the aperture blades. The smaller the aperture you use the more pronounced the starburst effect becomes. I wouldn't worry about, in fact I deliberately use a small aperture to get this effect with my night time shots.[/QUOTE]

What I was going for was as wide open as I could aperture to let as much light in and keep as much out of focus as possible - except what I was focusing on, in this case Big Ben tower, fast enough shutter as being hand held I didn't want to have anything blurred, but not too fast that I needed really high ISO which introduces noise. I think I got away with it mostly.

Got to say without the magazine and it's tips, I probably would not have tried this kind of shot, or wimped and used the semi-automatic P mode.