DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Low-light city landscape photo problems

Started Feb 11, 2020 | Photos thread
Jerry-astro
MOD Jerry-astro Forum Pro • Posts: 19,920
Look at your settings... not your gear
9

StopCzas wrote:

Hey guys, I like to shoot after sunset, usually +1h max. I tried to capture the details of night city, but i think i failed. Apart from my mistakes, what can i upgrade to get better results with X-T3 sensor?

btw. XF 50-140 is out of budget

Regards

At the expense of being rather blunt, you might first look at upgrading your skills and experience a bit before looking for additional gear. The EXIF data suggests that you took this shot at ISO 80, which would incredibly low for such a dark environment. You can shoot as high as ISO 800 or even 1600 with little or no noise to deal with (or certainly nothing that would eliminate any of the detail in your shot). Your image is clearly highly underexposed.

Before looking at different lenses, start by significantly increasing the amount of light in your exposure by increasing your ISO. You should be able to find the right combination of sensitivity (ISO), aperture, and exposure time to give you the result you're looking for. If you're still unable to get a good result, repost your examples and I'm sure there are plenty of very experienced photographers here who would be happy to help.

-- hide signature --

Jerry-Astro
Fujifilm X Forum Co-Mod

 Jerry-astro's gear list:Jerry-astro's gear list
Fujifilm 16-55mm F2.8R LM WR Fujifilm X-H2S Fujifilm XF 8-16mm F2.8 XF 150-600mm Canon Pixma Pro-100 +1 more
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow