How to take a good family picture outside at night by large christmas tree with lights?
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How to take a good family picture outside at night by large christmas tree with lights?
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How to take a good family picture outside at night by large christmas tree with lights?
I have the canon t1i, what settings would i use?
Isabella
January 26th, 2011 at 2:17 am
James
take a picture with a tripod focusing on the tree, and a picture without moving the camera focusing on the people, then just cut out the layers using the pen tool in photoshop.
Good luck.
January 26th, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Evelyn
We can’t possibly answer this without being there to take a reading for ourselves.
Try putting the camera on auto-everything and popping up the flash to see how it works out.
January 28th, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Victoria
You will need to have a long enough exposure to grab the tree lights. Probably a pop of flash to light and freeze your subjects, unless there is a lot of glow. Off camera flash would be nice. If not, dial in some minus compensation and let the exposure be rather darkish. A tripod would be useful, especially if your exposure is longer than 1/30 (which it may be.) It all depends on how much light you have to work with. Here are a couple of examples of night Christmas shots, one with flash and one ambient only. The exif on this first one is: ISO 320, f/4 @ 1/80 S, using an SB600 flash, probably on manual output or minus compensation.
I don’t have the info on the second one, but with no flash, my guesstimate is a higher ISO, and slower shutter speed. The trick to making a good lights/people shot is to capture the ambiance of the lights. In such a picture, you will have dark areas. That’s OK, let them be dark. Be prepared to experiment some, so make sure everyone is bundled up! Have fun.