Now that you understand a bit 'light, you will have to do a little' to understand your camera. The best way to do this is to look up from your Handy Dandy help or instructions, which should also help some graphics to help you. The other way is more common, and that the careful practice of finding the right settings for "hitting buttons until you find it." With the cameras, this is difficult because often defined not clear how people with this methodwants.
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You want to set the camera in manual exposure or simple cameras, set "night mode". Then you need the lens to its maximum aperture, which is usually set to 2.8. Set the ISO to the highest level you have (400 for the simple point and shoot cameras). Focus
Focus is the next topic which must be faced by using the Handy Dandy Guide or the method of "hitting the buttons until you find" it. Discover how to turn off auto-focus settings and then manually focus the camera on infinity, or as far away from that to focus the camera. With a simple point and shoot digital camera, this could mean for the small icon with a mountain. For the DSLR at some point during the day, focus your camera on something really far away, and then turn off the autofocus. If your digital SLR camera has an adjustable lens manually focused to infinity andTape. Experiment with this day, not only the confidence of the settings. Try to take something away from the job setup. White Balance
The next argument is to master the white balance settings. This is a way to compensate for red skies polluted by light, using the auto white balance. Most cameras auto white balance can be preset. These default settings usually give poor results at night. This is especially a problem whenshooting anywhere that has light pollution. It makes the sky a brown/red color.
Some cameras have a way for the user to select the white balance. ( check out the manual or hit buttons).
Whichever way, you want to set the white balance to Tungsten when using long exposures when photographing the night sky. This will give a nicer sky background
There are some high-end cameras let you use a custom white balance. If so, try adjusting the blue/amber and magenta/green balance.
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