The Night Mode on an iPhone 11 or 12 is very effective. There are also a number of cheap apps that you can add that enhance it, including a thermal imaging app.
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Cheap options for night/low light photography?
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MostlyBollocks
GCM
I have a Panasonic Lumix TZ60 and I posted a couple of pics on here ages ago showing its low light capability. CBA looking for it now, but I was amazed. Basically took 8 or so shots and stitched them together to give what looked like a daytime shot. It was a top end compact when I bought it, but did the job brilliantly without flash.
MostlyBollocks
GCM
Found it, it's on page 2360 of the self taken photos thread.
lokiuk
LE
From making a lot of mistakes....
First have some kind of digital SLR, doesn't matter brand really, that can shoot at ISO 1600 without creating massive artifacts, which nearly all digital cameras are capable of
Have a flash for your camera, it doesn't have to be an expensive one, but make sure it allows you to use manual mode on it, just try and avoid the pop up flash that can be inbuilt to your camera, get one that sits on your cameras 'hotshoe'
Rear sync flash gives a good look, use your flash on camera to save time, but with flash power set to manual
You will have to experiment, and it depends on how high an ISO you can go on your camera without seeing artificacts
But general ISO 800 or 1600, shutter 1/30 to begin with (try it at 1/15th when you get used to it), the fastest shutter speed for the lens ie f2.8 if you can (but ideally no slower than f5.6)
Actually thinking about it try ISO 800 (adjust this if your lens is slower aperture, for f/4 it will normally be ISO 1600) but depends on your kit
Always try to position your subject with light on the background if there is any and avoid any spotlights
and other bright objects covering faces, this will make you very difficult to edit them out later
Is that any help?
First have some kind of digital SLR, doesn't matter brand really, that can shoot at ISO 1600 without creating massive artifacts, which nearly all digital cameras are capable of
Have a flash for your camera, it doesn't have to be an expensive one, but make sure it allows you to use manual mode on it, just try and avoid the pop up flash that can be inbuilt to your camera, get one that sits on your cameras 'hotshoe'
Rear sync flash gives a good look, use your flash on camera to save time, but with flash power set to manual
You will have to experiment, and it depends on how high an ISO you can go on your camera without seeing artificacts
But general ISO 800 or 1600, shutter 1/30 to begin with (try it at 1/15th when you get used to it), the fastest shutter speed for the lens ie f2.8 if you can (but ideally no slower than f5.6)
Actually thinking about it try ISO 800 (adjust this if your lens is slower aperture, for f/4 it will normally be ISO 1600) but depends on your kit
Always try to position your subject with light on the background if there is any and avoid any spotlights
and other bright objects covering faces, this will make you very difficult to edit them out later
Is that any help?
lokiuk
LE
It's to get a specific look, a bit of a one trick pony but great when it works
Add 12 hours to the camera clock and take the photo in daylight.
People will look at the time-stamp and be really impressed.
People will look at the time-stamp and be really impressed.
Evdhimong
LE
Can't try any of this until dogging opens up again (just joking in case my wife reads this).
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Wildlife photography in the garden a couple of nights ago. iPhone 11
Wildlife photography in the garden a couple of nights ago. iPhone 11
Needs rotating 90° anticlockwise.
Whenever I load landscape photos from my phone, Arrse rotates them. It wouldn’t happen on my laptop or iPad, just the phone. Maybe I’m missing something, but there’s no photo edit function on Arrse now?
Wild guess that all those Apple devices are set to autorotate the image. The fact that it wants to load as portrait on a non-Apple platform suggests it is a portrait that was taken on it's side
If you use photo editing software, you can rotate it 90 degrees. You could try Faststone Image Viewer is free and works [*ETA I thought it worked on Apple too but maybe not]
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Yes, I think they do. It works no problem from Photos on my Mac, but from the camera roll it always rotates when loading to Arrse. I put the same image on Facebook yesterday and it rendered correctly.....Wild guess that all those Apple devices are set to autorotate the image. The fact that it wants to load as portrait on a non-Apple platform suggests it is a portrait that was taken on it's side
"In order to get the correct online rotation, you’ll need to either use an iOS device or an OS X devices with iCloud Photo Library synced to that collection, or use different software to handle the rotation and re-upload.
If you’re handy with the command line, in OS X or Windows, you can also use the free ExifTool to modify embedded EXIF data in photographs."
How to solve incorrect photo rotation after sync or upload
Hmm, I didn't see an Apple version for the software I mentioned after all.
Try this: How to Rotate Photos on Mac with Photos App
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