DSLR Shots and Discussions

Cmike2780

It would help if you posted your Shutter speed, aperture & ISO settings. Mixing lights with different color temps is always a bit tricky when setting white balance. You need to set a custom white balance.

Here's how to set it:
-Go to the location of your shoot. You'll need a gray card or at least something close to it in color (something neutral).
-hold down the WB button and turn the thumb wheel until it's set to "PRE"
-"PRE" will blink
-point your camera at the gray and click the shutter button. It should say "Good" if done correctly. That's it.

Alternatively, you can shoot in RAW and fiddle with the white balance afterwards.

For night landscape type photography, I usually do this:
-Set it to manual
-Set White Balance (see above)
-Set ISO to the lowest normal speed. I usually go with 100 or 200 the most.
-Set the aperture between f/8-f/11 if you want just about everything in focus.

Now all you have to worry about is the shutter speed. It's going to vary depending on how you want the scene to look. Just take a few shots until you see the one you want. Because of the ISO speed and aperture, you'll probably need to start at 1 second, then 2 second.....etc.

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LunaZ

That would be me.
But I think I'll try the custom WB route sometime so I know how to do it.

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