The Best Settings for Night Photography
The Best Settings for Night Photography Night photography is a fascinating genre of landscape photography. You’re standing outside in total darkness but the camera display shows something else: a starry sky and the beauty surrounding you. Photographing the night sky isn’t quite as straightforward as one might want, though. In fact, it is in many cases quite opposite of ‘regular’ landscape photography. Using the ‘wrong’ settings might lead to complete black images, and from experience, a lot of frustrations. To capture beautiful images of the night sky, you need to choose the right aperture, ISO and shutter speed. These are the settings you want to use: Use an Open Aperture While we tend to shoot with a narrow aperture for regular landscape photography (in order to achieve front-to-back sharpness), night photography requires a faster aperture. Wide-angle lenses with a fast aperture such as f/2.8 are preferred for night photography but, unfortunately, they are...