night scene with potrait shooting with s410/s500 ?

[lim]

has anyone take a night scene shoot with potrait using s410 or s500 ? and kind enough to share your work ? if yes , what are the adjustments made ?

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[mike j]

When you say portrait, do you mean a photo of a person ?

[lim]

yes, photo of a person with background at night.

[mike j]

You'd need to use a tripod, make sure your subject was well lit and also make sure they stayed very still !

I have found the night-shoot mode on the IXUS400 to be great for shooting fireworks and that kind of thing but when people have featured in the shots, they've either been too dark or blurred.

To take the fieworks shots, I simply turned the night mode on and selected a time of 1 sec and left everything else on automatic or default.

Good luck !

[lim]

can't you turn on the red eye flash or slow sychron flash to lit up the foreground person in long shutter mode ?

[lim]

can i take a picture of water flowing in a stream using slow shutter with good effect ?

[mike j]

can't you turn on the red eye flash or slow sychron flash to lit up the foreground person in long shutter mode ?

No, I don't think so.

[mike j]

can i take a picture of water flowing in a stream using slow shutter with good effect ?

No, unless it's at night !

If you set the shutter speed to the minimum (1 sec) in night-shoot mode and take a photo in daylight, you just get a totally whited out picture. Believe me, I've tried it !

[lim]

how about if i set the exposure to -2 and iso to 50 in the stream water picture taking ?

regarding the night scene with portrait have you personally tried out the long shutter and red eye flash on ?

[mike j]

how about if i set the exposure to -2 and iso to 50 in the stream water picture taking ?

regarding the night scene with portrait have you personally tried out the long shutter and red eye flash on ?

I'm fairly confident that any picture taken in daylight with night-shoot mode turned on and set to the minimum (1 sec) will come out completely whited-out - anyone else agree ?

And no, I haven't tried taking a night-time shot in night-mode with the flash on because I don't think it's possible !

I think you really have to choose between taking a normal photo with flash or taking a night-mode photo without it. Both will obviously give quite different results and are suitable for different things.

[DocFrankenstein]

Tried it 3 days ago with my S1IS

I was on the Jean Drapeau island in montreal. Night. Downtown montreal is about 2 miles away. Takes 15 sec shutter to get the downtown alone. beside 2 dim lights on the post, the subjects weren't lit.

What can I say? You need to fix your camera on a tripod, you need to fix your subjects on a tripod Set everything and the pic comes out ok. (I forgot to lower the apeture, it was 8.0)

Then I remembered the night picture mode. Still in the manual mode, 3.0 apeture and 2 sec shutter. When the shutter ends, flash goes off.

The quality is ok, if only my drunk friends could stay in one place :D

[Heimdall]

[quote="mike j"][quote="lim"]how about if i set the exposure to -2 and iso to 50 in the stream water picture taking ?

Hi!
I have an A70, is there no way I can take a long exposure of a waterfall etc. in daylight? I have tried, but all the pics is overexposed. I did this several years ago with my SLR, and got some nice shots....

Any ideas?

Heimdall