Your probably moving the camera slightly when you hit the shutter button, which would explain the blur.

Taking pics of cars at night will require some light on your subject, otherwise your camera (unless setup in manual) will expose for the average of available light which may leave your subject in darkness.

Got into San Francisco yesterday, soo fucked after being awake 38 hours.

Anyway here are a couple on the plane trip


And this is weird, we cross the International Date Line and they start serving different diet coke and scotch!

pretty sure ive got a tripod for a digital camera you can have if you want? its still in the box but might help with the blur on the pics and just making it easier.. also with the tripod you can use your timer on the camera and then step away for 2 seconds and you get a clear shot.

what location are you in? and I can send it down if you want

Hello, im in Bunbury. Thankyou for the offer but thats alright. =]

So Sleepy i'll need to change the settings to custom to raise exposure? or light getting into the lens as i parked the car and stood where i thought i could get most light.

Thanks for the feedback

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Leaving your headlights on can sometimes under expose your photos too (if in auto), trick to that is leave someone in your car and just flick them on and off as you take the photo.

If you can adjust the shutter speed on your camera, experiment with it. At night its not uncommon to have the shutter open for 15 to 30 seconds, but obviously you need a tripod.

Always use the lowest ISO.

Cooper, great spot you picked for the photos, I'm still learning but a good quality tripod is a must for night time shots, sometimes 20 sec plus exposures are required. I stuffed many a great shot in the beginning with a crappy tripod & not knowing how long to open the shutter, there is a great book you can buy called "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Petersen I bought it off ebay.

Alright i just played with my camera and i can ghange the ISO settings from Auto,
ISO 64
ISO 100
ISO 200
ISO 400
ISO 800

But then if i choose the lowest setting available, i can change the long time exposure setting, of which i just took a picture of the hallway with 8.0 sec exposure and it was farking bright, so that should work a treat at night? Thankyou for the great info guys, i dont have a tripod at the moment ive been using objects such as rails, tree branches, road or whatever!

Thanks!

I just read a camera review and it says its a snapshooters camera. So im trying to take photo's not really designed for its use.

http://www.cnet.com.au/digitalcamera...0062481,00.htm

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I have a question about noise and my pics looking grainy...

I tried last night to change my settings after every shot.. lowering and increaseing the ISO, shutter speed etc but they still come out crap

I also have some reflection happening in my pics.. like lights from buildings doubling up and reflecting about 2cms next to the actual building. they are only showing up on my night time pics obviously but its just annoying

To avoid noise, leave your ISO as low as possible and use a tripod.

As far as the lights flaring, there's not much you can do unfortunately. Have you got a sample of the photo?

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exactly like that... some it doesnt come out on like my exposures for 30 seconds long.. but some others do come out.. frustrating!