Hi Ladies and Gentlemen,
OK, Here are my top 10 tips on how to take creative Xmas tree lights at nights
1. You want to set your camera on Aperture Priority Mode on canon SLRS, this is the Av mode. You want to choose a large f-stop such as f/28 or f/34. IMPORT TIP: Use a tripod the shutter speed maybe long.
2. A creativity tip here if your DSLR has movie mode put it on and when you start have you movie out of focus start recording and slowly bring it into focus! I’ve tried this myself, works well! A tripod may not be necessary here
3. Set your camera on BULB and try taking picture with the shutter open 1 or 2 or even 5 minutes at a time. You can get some very interesting results from this.
4. Increase and decrease your exposure! Increasing and decreasing your exposure can sometimes give you some interesting effects.
5. Experiment, Experiment, Experiment! Remember the days when film was around and you had to pay 20-30 dollars to get it developed? Not any more play with your SLR, doesn’t matter if you takes you a couple of hours!
6. Don’t worry about composition or framing. When taking Xmas lights you can forget about composition and framing just concentrate more on the colours, shutter speed and aperture!
7. Take your time. This has to be one of the most important, playful tips in my book. Take your time, experiment!
8. Never use flash! This can ruin your image making it look dark and boring
9. Use cameras self timer or cable release, you need to eliminate camera shake any way you can.
10. Shoot in RAW once you get home you will have so many more option to play with inside of Adobe Camera RAW.
If you don’t follow any of these tips please at least use a tripod!
One last important tip: Always make sure your lens is clean! Because your taking pictures at night, if your lens isn’t clean, your just wasting your time!
Wayne Frost
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