taking pictures of lights behind objects is always tricky, even not at night. You will always end up with a silhouette and whatnot. If you are going for that, great, if not... then you need to try other things.Using some sort of light (or flash) to illuminate the front of the object, while still letting the backlight thru. (capturing people on the beach with the sunset in the background you almost always need a flash)If it is a bright backlight, you can also use something like a big white poster board to reflect some light back onto the front of objects.WHen i was doing some night pictures of the moon, and wanted to have some foreground stuff that was seen also, i had a porch light on behind me. Long exposure. So the stuff in the foreground was seen (but not too bright) and the stars/moon showed up while the sky was still quite dark.Now long exposures of far away things are tough. Any movement blurs it and, well the atmosphere gets in the way as well. I would try just playing with lots of settings... like hte iso settings. I know with real film you can play around with the sensitivity of the film itself, and digitals mimic it in some way, but im not entirely sure how (pixel binning maybe?)
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taking pictures of lights behind objects is always tricky, even not at night. You will always end up with a silhouette and whatnot. If you are going for that, great, if not... then you need to try other things.
Using some sort of light (or flash) to illuminate the front of the object, while still letting the backlight thru. (capturing people on the beach with the sunset in the background you almost always need a flash)
If it is a bright backlight, you can also use something like a big white poster board to reflect some light back onto the front of objects.
WHen i was doing some night pictures of the moon, and wanted to have some foreground stuff that was seen also, i had a porch light on behind me. Long exposure. So the stuff in the foreground was seen (but not too bright) and the stars/moon showed up while the sky was still quite dark.
Now long exposures of far away things are tough. Any movement blurs it and, well the atmosphere gets in the way as well. I would try just playing with lots of settings... like hte iso settings. I know with real film you can play around with the sensitivity of the film itself, and digitals mimic it in some way, but im not entirely sure how (pixel binning maybe?)
I liked them.
keep posting your pictures. they are awesome!
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