dandantheadminman
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ideas for night riding shotshey yall
i bin thinking bout trying some night riding style shots once i get the D50 (gunna be after my exams so 3 weeks from now), basically, because i havnt seen much night riding shots, yet peopel do ride in the dark, like XC with lights, street at night, lit skateparks, etc...
soo, any ideas for what i could do?
I thought i could quite easily do street with a tripod, long shutter speed and a poweful flash to freeze the action. would this work?
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Hamish
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Nightriding doesn't generally lend itself to particularly great shots. You can experiment if you want but you'd be better to learn what your new camera is capable of by shooting in the daytime and get used to it before you try night stuff.
If you want to shoot street at night then you'd be best to use rear synch flash but it might be difficult to balance the ambient light (i.e. background) with flash. I'd spend more time shooting when there's proper light available if I were you.
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dandantheadminman
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ooo ok, thnx for the advice
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Roo
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It will obviously be harder but I think you could get some great shots, if you are one of the people that follows the light meter or uses an auto mode then remember as a general rule, if your exposure according to the meter is 4 seconds, then actually give it 8 seconds, the problem then with this and combining flash with a moving rider, is that he/she will become semi transparent if there is any ambient light in the background behind them, if It's totally dark, you will be ok. As ever just experiment.
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dandantheadminman
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kk, would i still look for the hill shape histogram for night shots?
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Roo
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Not a clue, I don't know how to read histograms.
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fozzybear
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you will have no chance with a "hill shaped" histogram..
think about it..
the histogram relates the colour and amount of the pixels and plots them on a graph.. you will have a high level of black and gray and fewer colour pixels..
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Hamish
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The histogram can be a bit misleading. It's useful for letting you know when you've clipped shadows or highlights but it's distibution will vary for each photo you take. There's no real 'correct histogram' but there are correct photos. As Fozzy says, night photos will have a different distribution to day with the main bits of the photo being in the dark.
If you go out tonight and take a picture of the moon with something like f8 1/60 for iso 100 then it should come out reasonably well exposed like this (soft) pic:
Have a look at the histogram - it'll look anything but a hill shape but your picture should look okay. It's not going to be much use unless you over expose, in which case the highlights will be clipped.
The only real time I look at it the histogram is if I'm shooting at high ISO in, say a forest and I want to make sure I'm not underexposing the photo as lightening it PP will really make noise worse.
Hope that helps.
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dandantheadminman
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o ok thnx, yeh i didnt think it through, lol
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Joosh
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not really a technique, but i think for street there could be some good experiments involving glowsticks and minimal flash 
i have used it and got some ok results
hope i helped
Joosh
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duncan_g
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I had an idea ...
You could use a torch on like a stable thing to point at the rider instaed of using a flsh and then just have the rider illuminated. Dunno if it'd work but its an idea.
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