4 Comments

1. 
   felicitas10 · 2019-02-11 00:22

   Hi, I really like your photos! I'm about to start in the world of analog photography, I have a minolta a5 camera and a kodak plus200 color film. I wanted to know what kind of technical advice I could give to start taking pictures, especially at night, or when night comes, as which diaphragm and speed should I use? Thanks!

2. 
   neneohcs · 2019-02-11 21:30

   @felicitas10 thanx for your likes! i wrote a message to you as a beginning of an answer.
   here is some more about
   night shots:
   i have some automatised cameras, that help me do the job.
   a lot about it is trial and error, where the fun lives...

   f.i. a shot in a room with lamp light, f 2,8 or more may give you „a shallow field of depth“, but allows you to set times between 1/8 - 1/30 that you might master handheld, without shake.
   - f stop 2 - 2,8: you need to focus well enough on what is your target (eyes of somebody)
   - outdoors with 2,8 if you focus on things, cars, houses farther away than 5m field of depth does not matter so much.

   - i like taking fotos with a small aperture like f8 or f16 and long exposure, 1 second and longer - there you need your B on the minolta a5. B and sharp fotos is not so easy handheld ... but give it a try!!!

   For a street-scene at night, with car-lights, lanterns, shopwindows etc
   - set your camera aperture on f16 - distance on 2m - exposure time on B „ „Hold down your exposure button and keep it pressed“ - hold your camera steady for an amount of time lets say 8 or more seconds...
   have fun...

   same setting:
   for instance foto situation: in a shopping mall, narrow street, house ...
   hold your camera in front of your belly and walk with the shutterbutton pressed down.
   similar:
   hold your camera out of the window, in the back of a bus, driving in a car....

   useful equipment to get the things „right“:
   - external light meter (app for a smartphone)
   - for a real sharp night shot with the bulb (B) setting on your camera you max need a tripod or a place where your camera is stable and straight.
   - a cable exposure (as long as my hand is on the camera, there is a fair amount of tremble)
   - light sources (flashlight, lamps, reflections, handy)
   - if you use a light-meter - „meassure the shadows!“ (with digital that is different)

   have fun
   michael

3. 
   felicitas10 · 2019-02-12 20:40

   Thank you!!!

4. 
   neneohcs · 2019-02-12 21:40

   @felicitas10 you‘re welcome!