A540 ISO800 15sec.

Hello friends......
I just want to know why the image i shot at night look like i'm shooting at day time ? I set to "manual" ISO800 & 15sec.....any idea...?

Thanks.

Show us the picture. It's probably overexposed but maybe it's properly exposed and you're not used to that. 15 seconds is a pretty long exposure time.

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sniper44 wrote in post #2527582
Hello friends......
I just want to know why the image i shot at night look like i'm shooting at day time ? I set to "manual" ISO800 & 15sec.....any idea...?

Thanks.

Your camera does not know what effect you want it will try and adjust for a normal exposure. You don't say what aperture but 15s at ISO800 would over expose a city street, if you were anywhere dark but with a city nearby the sky would not be black - probably a mixture of dark blue and orange.

You need to set your camera as a "Night Shot" or take control and adjust the camrea's settings for the result you want.

Here's the sample...

sniper44 wrote in post #2527852
Here's the sample...

It looks like late evening judging by the street lights. To make it look like night you could just PP this shot, darken and apply a cooling filter, or re-take at a 5-8sec exposure or drop ISO800 to ISO400 keeping to 15 seconds. The camrea has done a remarkable job in giving you a "technically correct" exposure, a pitty that was not what you wanted.

15s was just too long & ISO800 was too high.

in a shot like this, i would have tried Av to choose the aperture and let the camera choose the shutter speed. I would have also used a tripod/solid surface to stand camera. once you have the camera stable, you could have left the ISO low to avoid the noise.

Thanks for all your advice......
It's help me a lot...thanks again...