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marysolima
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885 days ago
 
taking nighttime pictures

 so i saw some deer a few nights ago in my front yard (7 of them!) at midnight and i immediately ran to my digital camera (canon sd630) to take pictures...they were about 20 feet in front of me, and so i tried capturing the moment using nighttime mode, nothing; turned the flash off and turned the ISO speed up, nothing; i tried fiddling around with some other features but by the end of my unsuccessful photo shoot, all the deer ran away lol...any suggestions for taking pictures at night with subjects that are far away? or trying to take pictures of the moon/stars? anything? thank you:)

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ben-s
885 days ago
 
Use a long exposure for things that don't move, or when you want motion blur.
For things that move, use a bigger flashgun.
As your camera doesn't have a hotshoe, you'll need a slave flash such as the Metz Mecablitz 28 CS-2.
This is a flashgun that picks up the flashes emitted by the camera's own flash, and supplements it with a higher powered flash.
One nice feature that this unit has is the ability to learn your camera's preflash sequence (That sequence of small flashes just before it actually takes a picture).
A normal slave flash will fire as soon as it sees a flash of any kind, whereas this one waits for the proper sequence before going off.

Link to metz info on the Mecablitz 28CS-2:
http://www.metz.de/en/photo_electronics … l.225.html

Hope this helps
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