It doesn’t mean that I like the dragons. It is just a technique to capture lights in the night.

The lights are combination of moving cars’ light and lamppost light. They are looks like flying Dragon light in the night sky. Can you count how many dragons in the photo? More than 9, maybe. I say 9 dragons to tell there are many.

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How to capture the Flying Dragons effect? The photo was taken in a moving car. Means you need a driver at first place. Adjust aperture as low you can, so that you won’t see weak light beside the road. Extend the shutter speed to 4 seconds.

The light curves was due to uneven road surface and car moving shake. This awesome effect is 100% original photo without Photoshop.

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My best City night shoot so far. We went out that night purposely to capture the night view of city.

I’m sure you know the tallest and longest bridge that linked old town and the heart of Melaka city. It is beside one of the famous shopping mall – Mahkota Parade and Eye of Malaysia. Best location to describe the looks of Melaka town.

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To capture the lights in star shape, definitely need a tripod. By extend the shutter speed, managed to get the lovely purplish dark sky. I shoot at aperture f/8.0 to get sharpest image of night photo on Nikon D60. In fact, it process best image in between f/8.0 to f/11.0.

The photo give me a feeling of Healthy, Clean, Peace. What do you say?

This is my very first outdoor shooting at night. The bridge near my house is just nice for me to practice my first ever night photography or some call “paint with light”.

You see the photo paint by vehicles light. Left lane with red light and right lane on white or yellow light. If you enlarge the photo (click on photo), the lamps have 14 star cross. Remember this is without special effect filter, just normal kit lens. The effect is cool!

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How To Shoot Night Photography?

1. Tripod is a must for night photography. Digieye TR-38 perform well during my night shoot. Don’t let wind blow away your DSLR at such high position.
2. Another to concern is security of the spot. The path way to the bridge has no people during night time, and the staircase covered by huge tree. To be more secure, I bring along my dog for better security just in case. Or you can ask family or friend to accompany along.
3. Remote control can help to reduce vibration on DSLR camera when expose long seconds. Or you can set self timer to 2 seconds and let it shoot without pressing.
4. Turn to “S” (Shutter) mode. Reduce the shutter speed to at least 15 seconds. Try an error for different shutter speed. Look out ISO and Exposure. Don’t need increase too high since the shutter expose for long seconds or it over expose.

Did I left out anything, please suggest in comment. I’ll take it seriously to improve my photography skills.

Lesson Summary

• Must bring Tripod
• Consider security. Ask friend go together.
• Remote control (if possible)
• Reduce Shutter Speed (15 secs or more)