Low light photography using 70D

[maverick786us]

Can someone suggest me best settings for night time photography? Being a DSLR, there is no night settings, but I want to take a good night time photography, which should generate results as good as Lumia 1020. So can someone suggest me manual settings for taking good nite time photographs?

What I am looking for is the night time photographgs to be as good as these or better in night time, where buildings even at greater distance which is out of reach for flash but still have detailes using my 70D.

http://www.windowscentral.com/nokia-lumia-1020-low-light-samples-versus-920-925

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Canon 70D, 18-55MM STM

 

[hippocar]

street or landscape photography? will you be using tripod? do you have steady hand?

usually for night shots, u can play around with the higher ISO settings depending on how dark is the area you are shooting.. tripod or monopod will help too if you are doing long exposures...

 

[maverick786us]

street or landscape photography? will you be using tripod? do you have steady hand?

usually for night shots, u can play around with the higher ISO settings depending on how dark is the area you are shooting.. tripod or monopod will help too if you are doing long exposures...

Usually I want to try out some night time building photography in Landscape mode, where I want to cover more and more buildings instead of streets. For this kind of occasion I won't take a tripod

 

[hippocar]

try shooting in Aperture Priority Av mode f7.1, ISO set to 800 to 1600.. ( 70d should be able to handle ISO1600 ) .. if you dont have steady hands, try to lean your body against wall, lamp post or structures so that there's little movement that will cause your pics taken to be blurred..... (like a sniper)

for the 18-55 lens if u shoot at f3.5 aperture.. the pic wont be very sharp...

Not using flash too rite?

 

[maverick786us]

try shooting in Aperture Priority Av mode f7.1, ISO set to 800 to 1600.. ( 70d should be able to handle ISO1600 ) .. if you dont have steady hands, try to lean your body against wall, lamp post or structures so that there's little movement that will cause your pics taken to be blurred..... (like a sniper)

for the 18-55 lens if u shoot at f3.5 aperture.. the pic wont be very sharp...

Not using flash too rite?

I will use the default flash that comes with the DSLR. This lens have an Optical Image Stabilizer, so won't it be helpful in reduing the blurr?

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Canon 70D, 18-55MM STM

 

[Mark B.]

try shooting in Aperture Priority Av mode f7.1, ISO set to 800 to 1600.. ( 70d should be able to handle ISO1600 ) .. if you dont have steady hands, try to lean your body against wall, lamp post or structures so that there's little movement that will cause your pics taken to be blurred..... (like a sniper)

for the 18-55 lens if u shoot at f3.5 aperture.. the pic wont be very sharp...

Not using flash too rite?

I will use the default flash that comes with the DSLR. This lens have an Optical Image Stabilizer, so won't it be helpful in reduing the blurr?

 

[Akpinxit]

I'd suggest f5.6 with ISO 800-1600 at max . Shutter speed will climb to ~ 2-4 sec. - just set the camera on the car roof (if any around) or on the ground with shoulder strip folded under the lens (to provide an angle up) .

 

[maverick786us]

try shooting in Aperture Priority Av mode f7.1, ISO set to 800 to 1600.. ( 70d should be able to handle ISO1600 ) .. if you dont have steady hands, try to lean your body against wall, lamp post or structures so that there's little movement that will cause your pics taken to be blurred..... (like a sniper)

for the 18-55 lens if u shoot at f3.5 aperture.. the pic wont be very sharp...

Not using flash too rite?

I will use the default flash that comes with the DSLR. This lens have an Optical Image Stabilizer, so won't it be helpful in reduing the blurr?

 

[Kobus66]

Should one underexpose for night time photography? Surely one would have to, otherwise the camera will expose too much.

 

[Joe52985]

Should one underexpose for night time photography? Surely one would have to, otherwise the camera will expose too much.

 

[jp4]

With the 70D you can use ISO 3200 with good results if you use something like DxO to remove noise. (There are many options for reducing with noise.)

On pg 87 of the manual you can check out the "Shooting Night Scenes - Handheld". This mode takes 4 photos in succession and combines them in-camera. I haven't used this in the 70D yet, but in my small Sony pocket camera, this mode has been amazing.

 

[maverick786us]

Night time photography



This is a perfect example what I was trying to explain. if you look at the buildings behind right behind Metilda.

No flash has the range that can reach those buildings, and yet the buildings visible. When i shot such buildings, all I could see is just the lights coming from the window. So i hope the settings that you guys told me will be able to take similar kind of night time pictures if not bad?

Thanks for the suggestion anyways, I will try it this weekend.

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Canon 70D, 18-55MM STM

 

[Orange88]

Night time photography

This is a perfect example what I was trying to explain. if you look at the buildings behind right behind Metilda.

No flash has the range that can reach those buildings, and yet the buildings visible. When i shot such buildings, all I could see is just the lights coming from the window. So i hope the settings that you guys told me will be able to take similar kind of night time pictures if not bad?

Thanks for the suggestion anyways, I will try it this weekend.

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Canon 70D, 18-55MM STM

I find this picture rather fuzzy and not a great example. Using a tripod or something else to reset the camera upon should allow the buildings to be much sharper. With the longer exposure times the people will still be blurred but that's OK.



What settings did you use on the 70D when you tried it?

Why don't you try putting it on Manual mode? If you're standing as far away from the subject as in this photo you probably won't have to worry about depth of field, so open the aperture as wide as it'll go, then play around with shutter speeds to see how long you can go while holding it steady enough to get an image as sharp as you like. You'll still do better by using something solid to hold the camera or bracing yourself against something solid.

Try it this weekend and then come back with your results.

 

[maverick786us]

Night time photography

This is a perfect example what I was trying to explain. if you look at the buildings behind right behind Metilda.

No flash has the range that can reach those buildings, and yet the buildings visible. When i shot such buildings, all I could see is just the lights coming from the window. So i hope the settings that you guys told me will be able to take similar kind of night time pictures if not bad?

Thanks for the suggestion anyways, I will try it this weekend.

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Canon 70D, 18-55MM STM

I find this picture rather fuzzy and not a great example. Using a tripod or something else to reset the camera upon should allow the buildings to be much sharper. With the longer exposure times the people will still be blurred but that's OK.

What settings did you use on the 70D when you tried it?

Why don't you try putting it on Manual mode? If you're standing as far away from the subject as in this photo you probably won't have to worry about depth of field, so open the aperture as wide as it'll go, then play around with shutter speeds to see how long you can go while holding it steady enough to get an image as sharp as you like. You'll still do better by using something solid to hold the camera or bracing yourself against something solid.

Try it this weekend and then come back with your results.

That picture was taken using lumia 1020. I tried with automatic settings. I will try this weekend and post some snaps. Thanks once again

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Canon 70D, 18-55MM STM

 

[janeames]

I have a 70D and have been working out the best settings for weddings in the church without flash. This is what I have decided, put on auto ISO. have as wide open as possible that your lens will go, make sure shutter speed is not below 60. Also I highly suggest in your case to use mirror lock up, you can get amazing sharp shots that way.

 

[maverick786us]

Can you show me some of the great night time photographs taken using Canon 70D

 

[Orange88]

Can you show me some of the great night time photographs taken using Canon 70D

 

[maverick786us]

Can you show me some of the great night time photographs taken using Canon 70D

 

[Jon_T]

If you have not already done, I would recommend you thoroughly read DPR's 70D Review (especially the "12. Auto Focus") and look through the review's "19. Samples Gallery ", i.e., "Canon EOS 70D review samples" and "Canon EOS 70D Beta preview samples gallery" -- some exterior night shots with the EXIF.

To simulate using your 70D as using your Lumia 1020, would recommend:

• "P" Program mode
• Auto ISO
• Live View; For "AF method", I prefer the "FlexiZoneAF". You should read the user guide on the CD on the 70D's different AF methods and experiment with the different AF methods to determine with mode(s) you prefer with different shooting conditions.

 

[Myrgjorf]

Can you show me some of the great night time photographs taken using Canon 70D

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Canon 70D, 18-55MM STM

8 seconds exposure, tripod. Low resolution version.