Photographing Holiday Lights

[gcherry]

Ritz Camera has a good article on their web site about photographing holiday lights:

http://www.ritzcamera.com/static/articl ... ights.html

I swear I'm going to get some holiday pictures this year!

[JulieM]

Glenda,

Thanks for posting that! We have the most wonderful Christmas lights decorating the national capital area here. I just noticed that they will be lit on Thursday and I'd like to try my hand at photographing some of the displays. I'll bookmark your link and read up on it later.

[photoshopsusieq]

Thanks for posting this article. Hubby and I are planning on a photo shoot of the Plaza lights in Kansas City and it will be a perfect time to try out some of the tips!

[gcherry]

You're welcome! I can't wait to see your photos!

[NMarti]

Great article Glenda. Thanks for sharing it.

[RobertSchuldenfrei]

Hi Glenda,

I plan to use some of these ideas this year. Thanks for the post.

Cheers,

Bob

[Winsunn]

Great article. I'm going to adjust my white balance and see what results I get.

[lexcell]

Glenda,
Thanks for taking the initiative and posting that article. It has some excellent advice and tips. With the holidays approaching, it is very timely. How about everyone posting their favorite holiday light photos so we can all share and learn from them.

A couple of thoughts come to mind here...

-To get the starburst effect from the lights you can purchase a star or cross screen filter. They come invarying points. Or, you can close your aperture all the way down to around f22 (if you are photographing just lights and are on a tripod) and you will get the star efect.


-Another fun thing to try is to zoom your lens while the shutter is open. You have to be careful to avoid too much camera shake but, you can get some really cool effects from this as well. Again, you need a slow exposure and to be on a tripod for this technique to work.

Have a great time photographing the holiday lights. Looking forward to seeing the results.

[smack1019]

great article. Thanks for posting it!
Steve

[gez]

Another holiday light photo tip site:

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/12...as-lights.html