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To obtain exciting and dynamic shots at night, it is advisable and often essential to use a tripod. Especially with time exposures of a couple of seconds, it is almost impossible to take sharp and unblurred pictures if using merely the hands to hold the camera still. But a tripod not only serves for sharp pictures. Moreover it can be used as a stylistic means. It enables the photographer to play and experiment with the scene, especially with the various light effects. This can result in very vivid photos. Surely, one can just put the tripod on a still-standing item but basically a tripod offers a far wider range of possibilities to create the scene according to personal affectations.

The attached three pictures come as examples for how one can use the light. Hereby it is important to take care of the decision what kind of aperture and shutter speed is being used. All of the three pictures were taken with a time exposure between 4s and 15s . With a wider aperture I could have chosen shorter exposure times but this in turn would surely have resulted in a loss of the impact of the impression.

Thus, to obtain awe-inspiring night shots it is advisable to use a tripod and to experiment a bit with the aperture and the shutter speed. The results are often surreal and enthralling. Try it out, I promise you a lot of fun.