Street photography at Night forces to face more challenges. “If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough”, nicely said by Robert Capa. Street Photography is not a new topic on our website. Years after years many articles has been published only on Street Photography to allay your anxiety! Today, at night.
Street photography At Night : Night is Fearful
All animals except the nocturnal creatures, fears the night. So as human. Crime done by human increases. We only feel secured where there are lot of peoples, lights, may be known area. Coming out from the poetic words – your camera can be hijacked at night! Be careful. Police usually remains a bit active too. You must measure your capabilities to handle the odd situations. Backgrounds can become beautiful at night, the people photographed can become the secondary element of the picture.
You know what to carry for night photography. As Sun is not present, from area to area, the temperature can get decreased so much, it might create technical problem to take photograph with DSLR camera. We already know, which camera mode to use at which situation and manual mode.
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Street photography At Night : Compose The Scenes During Daylight
The places we pass everyday, can become great at night. It is a natural human habit to imagine the place at night. Night means dark, darkness means noise in digital photography. To avoid noise, we need to o closer to the subject, thus we can avoid a high shutter speed to capture the moving subjects. More far away, we have to increase the speed. We can freeze a moving subject in 1/60 of a second within the arms length, if it away, we might need to go up to at least 1/125.
Tripod can avoid the blur. There are different types of Tripod Heads for different usages. External Light Meter, Reflectors can be your friends.
When we are saying “Street Photography”, it is assumable that it is not a place where you are only human being who is living – that can be frank night photography or low light photography. There are humans, more or less. From these technical information, you have to compose the scenes in mind and really reproduce them. In Street Photography, exact emulation of situation is not possible. Obviously, this approach is after you have mastered the linked articles.
