How to shoot a good night scene with a traditional SLR camera?

First, we should fully understand the light, especially the high brightness area: all kinds of light, the moon and reflected light can basically judge the brightness.

Second, no special settings are needed. You can appropriately lower the sensor dial to one or two gears to cancel autofocus (if any).

Third, under 1/60 seconds, it needs to be fixed on a tripod, and it is basically impossible to shoot by hand.

Fourthly, because of the large contrast, it is necessary to measure the light in high light area, reflective area and dark light area respectively (if there is an electronic metering system). Exposure value is chosen according to the brightness of the subject, and it should be a little darker.

Fifth, the exposure time can be appropriately increased without too large aperture, but the reciprocal magnification should be prevented from failing. For example, the moon 1/60s on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, F/8 is enough, or 1/60s, f/1 (according to the proportion of the moon in the figure, if the long lens is-200mm, it will probably account for1).

If you shoot an incandescent lamp, you should basically abandon the light source, take diffuse light as the basis of exposure, and basically adopt the method of small circle length exposure. For example: 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, take more pictures and choose the best.

Traditional camera shooting night scenes basically depends on experience, and experience is accumulated. According to a certain brightness and its proportion in the picture, different combinations of aperture and shutter speed are used to shoot and record the exposure data of each photo. There are 3 or 2 volumes, and I will try to shoot night scenes with traditional SLR.

Praise: I once took a panoramic picture of a room with curtains (during the day), with an aperture of F/64 and a shutter speed of 5 minutes. I know what it's like to write light on the negative. Camera: Ricoh XR-X, 24-80 lens (seems to be), F/64 aperture. I didn't know the aperture of this camera was so small until I hit door B.