Night shot

[neowinxp]

Hello All,

I took this night shot at Washington DC couple of weeks back, I am not quite happy with the image as I do not see any people who are in front of the fountain. I have used the F/32 for 30 sec exposure. (See the attachment containing the image and the properties details.)

Can anyone of you kindly help me to know how to shoot and make people visible and with clear details.

Thanks,
Neo

[westx]

That one looks pretty good. You need to get more light in by going to a longer exposure time.

[PrimeTime]

Get a remote timer so you can set longer exposures.

[ttosifa]

Originally Posted by neowinxp

Can anyone of you kindly help me to know how to shoot and make people visible and with clear details.

f/32 is a pretty small aperture. Depending on what you are after, you might be able to open up 3 or 4 stops and still have reasonable depth of field.

But you're going to have trouble get clear details of people with any long exposure (unless you use flash too). Most likely they will show up as blurs since they cannot hold perfectly still during the exposure. You might already know this, but it was not clear in your question.