Comments on: Twilight Photography Tips

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Nice post, thanks for sharing this wonderful and useful information with us.

By: Dev

Dev — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:56:38 +0000

Great tips mate. One thing you could add to this, i.e. lenses that comes with VR, advise them to turn off VR while using tripod as VR might would like to compensate for something that is actually not there and may spoil the picture.

Thanks for your great tips again.

Regards,
Dev

By: Peter Lord

Peter Lord — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:13:03 +0000

Thank you so much for these photo tips i have found them to be very helpful when looking for information on how to take photo shoots at night. Please keep up the good work and pass on more tips.

Many Many thanks
Pete Lord

By: Tom D

Tom D — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:54:05 +0000

Thanks again for the tips everyone, had great fun trying out all the suggestions. It was my first time out with a tripod and its been a bit of a revelation! Would love to see other peoples shots taken in similar conditions.

By: Tom D

Tom D — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:17:09 +0000

Hi Matt,

Top article, really appreciate your tips. Hugely excited about trying these out, packing up my kit for tonight…1 hour to sunset (London time).

Cheers,

Tom

By: Anthony M Benton

Anthony M Benton — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:21:29 +0000

I truly believe the “twilight hour” is the best time to shoot. We have an annual Festival of Lights in our town and the streets are filled with l.e.d. christmas lights. Heres one of my favorites. http://www.highresmediallc.com/AMBFOL.jpg

By: Jordan McClements

Jordan McClements — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:22:21 +0000

A very interesting article…

But tell me, what exactly is the difference between Twilight and Dusk??

By: Daniel Mc Adam

Daniel Mc Adam — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:07:08 +0000

Fantastic article and very informative

By: Matthew G. Monroe

Matthew G. Monroe — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:04:45 +0000

A few folks have asked about focusing their camera during night shots, and why I put so much emphasis on turning the Autofocus off. The simple reason is that — when it starts getting dark outside — Autofocus is pretty dang’ close to being useless. It’s better to get to your established shooting location, set focus while you still have light out, and then turn your Autofocus off.

What to do if it’s too dark for setting Autofocus? Simple… Look on the side of your lens, and set a guestimated distance between you and your main subject by just dialing it in. It’s not the most accurate way to set focus, though it should get you right in the ballpark. If you’re on a relatively wide lens and at around f8 or so, you’ll have a ton of slop to play with.

I was also asked why I think that sunset photos tend to be boring — and then an analogy was made between shooting sunsets and taking pictures of beautiful women. Quite honestly, if all I did was shoot headshots of beautiful women — with the same general lighting, positioning, and framing every day — I’d find that to be pretty dang’ boring, no matter how beautiful the women were. On the other hand, by adding variance to the shots (different lighting techniques, framing, exposures, etc) and making those variances a way of enhancing the mood and feel of the images, well, that’s how interesting photos are created.

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:31:00 +0000

Your opening comments regarding every sunset looking like every other sunset and how boring it is, is to me, like saying “you know what I don’t understand? Why is it that everyone takes pictures of beautiful women. I mean every beautiful woman looks the same as all the other beautiful women….bor-rinnnng. Stop taking pictures of beautiful women!”