Tips for Shooting Photos at Night with Your Phone

varsha gupta
4 min readMay 10, 2018

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After the sun has set and the city lights come to life, you have a choice put your camera aside until the daylight returns or take on the challenge of shooting in the dark. Night photography with your smartphone can be daunting, you will face the low light, extreme contrast, and pesky camera noise. but luckily, you can creatively work around those limitations to capture beautiful, sometimes beautifully surreal photos of the night. Here are the tips for night photography with your phone!

1. Use apps for Long Exposures

When shooting in low light with a camera, to getting the right exposure is a long shutter speed. By controlling shutter speed try it manual (IOS).

Like in a night shot you know….it take so much time to take a photo So if we use manually Then we can control exposure time, By putting ISO at 800 or 1600 and changing the exposure seconds… We can click great light photos in short time.Sometime in the automatically that much bright shot not capture. But manually we can click even brighter images. Manually have a slight disadvantage too…..
Of less sharp image than automatically But that can be controlled by limiting ISO to lesser than 800.

Ticks: Higher ISO, lesser the time
Lesser ISO, higher the time

2. Keep It Stable

The best way of preventing motion blur and getting a tack sharp photo during a long exposure is to keep your camera stable. in this case, use a mobile tripod stand.

3. Capture Motion

One thing that comes out to play at night car lights. set your phone to a long exposure and frame a road busy cars.It is an idea that can be infinitely varied: car crossing or even planes flying overhead.

4. Dare to be Abstract

Darkness may prevent you from getting the perfectly lite shot. But the long exposure and big contrast actually make for a great opportunity to take abstract or surreal photos.

5.Get the best from your phone’s flash

When it’s dark, you can always use the extra light on what you are shooting. your phone flash is convenient, so why not put it to use…..try it somewhat paper over the flash and turned your phone back on any surface to soften the light.

6. Stylize your Photo with Grain and Black & White

Low light and high ISOs can lead to noise in your photos. but a little grain doesn’t ruin it: Edit your photos to turn those flaws around. for dramatic effect just make it black and white, may brighten it up a little and you will be emulating a very classic photographic style.

7. Take Advantage of Backlighting

Night can be a time to find extreme lighting situations and backlighting is just one way to get a creative visuals effects. you can take front store windows, street lights, or wherever lights conveniently shine behind your subject.

8. Embrace Night Lights

City Lights and storefronts, neon sign lights make shot creative you simply can’t get this during the day to take the time to see how you can make it unique them.

Hope you enjoyed this article, please do share your Night Shots and feedback in comments below. Thank You.

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