Portrait Night Photography Settings

Lenses with f28 or larger apertures work best.

Portrait night photography settings. Set your ISO to a high number. Yes for outdoor portraits or indoor in a room wide enough a focal length higher than 85mm in Full Frame or 50mm in APS-C Dx in Nikon is preferable also for full-length portraits because of what you said since you have room to stay far enough from you subject but Ive found some difficulties when I want to photograph my kid indoor hes almost 3 now and sometimes moves. 18 to 50mm lens your kit lens may work fine but an f28 would be much better.

If you require a longer shutter speed than this you will need to set the camera to the bulb setting and use a cable release or remote trigger to keep the shutter open for longer durations. Trust me on this and flip your camera from automatic to the M for manual mode. How to use and balance aperture shutter speed.

Luckily modern cameras provide you with an array of night-friendly settings to help get a sharp properly exposed photo of stars planets and night landscapes. This is extremely helpful with low aperture numbers. Shutter Priority is also perfect for photographing the night sky.

I suggest you set your camera to manual mode to give yourself more creative control of your exposure. Its great for stabilizing your camera to prevent motion blur when using slow shutter speed. Most night photographs use shutter speeds of between one and ten seconds and most cameras will allow you to set shutter speeds up to 30 seconds duration.

Wide angle lens which is best if you want to capture the whole club scene or the widest that you can An external flash gun aside from the on-camera flash and with a flash strength of 118. Refer to your camera models manual to find out how to change the focus setting. A camera body with high ISO.

I suggest shooting in RAW mode if you have the right editing software. 1100 ISO 1600 F20 160 ISO 3200 F28 130 ISO 6400 F20 on a tripod. When youre in Shutter Priority Mode just look at your cameras selected aperture and youll see that it can be as small as f22 for an exposure of a few seconds long.