Neil's vblog: Night photography

[NickLambify]

Where are you from?

[neilcreek]

Melbourne, Australia.

[sumitino]

focusing on exact infinity is in fact difficult when shooting stars as most digital lenses (and older MF as well) allow you to focus 'past' infinity - this soft focus can be seen in your widefield shot of Sagitarius. Or it could just be your jpg compression idk :) well done keep it up.

[FaerieTears]

Thanks for sharing, you've got some nice photos there. I'm going to be experimenting with night photography this week when I travel up to northern Minnesota and I stumbled upon your video while doing some research on the subject / looking for inspiration.

[ExpertPhotoTips]

I find with the use of a tripod and a low ISO (say around 100) gives the best results with little grain... But whatever works for you.

[straightshots]

With a name like ExpertPhotoTips, I would have thought you would actually know what you're talking about. But obviously not. You try getting the noise free results that neilcreek of the center of the galaxy by using a tripod, low iso and a very long shutter speed without the stars becoming streaks. It might be in your best interest to brush up on your knowledge before you comment on photography videos.

[ArtificialProjection]

what qualifies you as "brushed up"?... A low iso DOES produce less grain, if it works for him, so be it.

Maybe, if you were to stop taking "straightshots" you could unlock some mental chasm of creativity.

Dont assume you know better than anyone, because you probably dont.

[straightshots]

What qualifies me as brushed up? Well unlike you and "ExpertPhotoTips", I'm a pro photog who knows more about digital imaging that most photographers.

And congratulations for knowing low ISO's result in less noise. Anyone could tell you that. Best thing for you to do is go back and re-read what I said to ExpertPhotoTips and take note of "without the stars becoming streaks." Then you might unlock some mental chasm of intelligence and understand why ExpertPhotoTips is talking shit.

[ArtificialProjection]

Haha...A "Pro-Photographer"?... you consider yourself pro, and yet you spend your time searching "photography" on youtube.

Mr. Straightshots, expertphototips is not talking shit, you are, stop being so defensive. Your not the best and never will be, and no, you dont know more about digital imaging than most. Stop fooling yourself, just because you post a few youtube vids on a subject, doesn't qualify you as a fucking genius.

[straightshots]

Yeah, I do look stuff up on youtube. It's actually a good resource for equipment reviews. And I also take an interest in what other photographers are doing. And it's interesting that you would make the assumption that I don't know more about digital imaging than most when you don't know me nor who I am. Considering that fact that not only am I a photographer, I mentor other photographers. And not only do I shoot for local clients, I shoot for overseas clients. I must be useless huh.

[ArtificialProjection]

Haha Mr. Straightshots, i must apologize, ive just seen you have a video called "How any idiot can be a pro..." so i guess you can call yourself a pro after all.. :P

This shit writes itself :D

[straightshots]

You obviously have no understanding of sarcasm if you think my video is serious.

[straightshots]

By the way, ExpertPhotoTips is still wrong. If you're such an expert, why don't you try what ExpertPhotoTips suggested and see if you can get a photograph as good as neilcreek's astro photo.

[qazahmed]

how do get that purple sky???

on 1:30

did you use a purple filter?

[SteinR88]

He said during the videos that he tweaked the colors

[mrdre1019]

well done

[Deporcali23]

can u make a video for biginers ??? something like starters photography plz and thx u!

[peterbowles8888]

try keep iso setting to a minimum.. you can do this by having a longer shutter speed.. this requires a tri pod..

if you need fast shutter speed for dark situations like gigs.. then u may have to use a higher iso..

[Hybrid93Hatch]

At 17 seconds you state "Set the ISO settings high".  If using a tripod why not keep the ISO at the lowest setting to keep the noise / grain to a minimum?

[Ba3dadBoy]

With night photography, you'll get trails on the stars when taking long exposure shots. I find at around 15+ seconds of exposure this becomes very obvious. So even if you are using multiple exposures then the stars will have shifted for each exposure. Using a high ISO will reduce the exposure time. So, say 100 vs 800 is 1/8th of the exposure time.

You can then reduce grain with something like noise ninja

[DarkHalycon]

@Hybrid93Hatch

It actually depends on the subject you are focusing at night. If you are capturing something stationary like a landscape what you said works fine. But, if you taking a moving subject (like a stage show) increasing the ISO is one of the best option to reduce the exposure time.

[mreinstein48]

@Hybrid93Hatch  Right, I agree

[sal64lon]

Thanks. Really informative videos.

[mishbot]

Very cool, well done!

[monstermatt2]

hey neil what do u call that shot at 2:35

[Fid3lio]

Thanks alot for sharing your knowledge. I started with photography a couple of months agot, and I was searching the tube on "photography" just now hoping to bump into a guy like you:) So, I hope I'll see more of your tips and tricks in future! Just to be sure, you took two pictures, and merged them together? (to get rid of noise) one more thing, I hate using high ISO, because of the general noise it creates in the picture.. is there any tip on that?

[ryanracca]

there's a setting for the Canon 40D...

It reduces noise at high/expanded ISO

it works for 800 ISO and above (for the 40D, 3200 ISO is the highest ISO setting)

Try going to deviantART or camera forums...

they might give you the answer...