How to get better night shots?

[tonyluo2001]

When I try to get a night shot, it's very easy to get the glare like the ones below (from the street lights).

How to avoid that?

 

[ttsoldier]

Taken from another post..

I think making sure you lens is clean will improve a lot of your pictures. Looking through your pictures I see a lot of flares and long streaks from the light sources.

Here are examples of dirty lens and clean lens I just took. Both are on auto setting.

Dirty
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Clean
View attachment 26380

You might also want to adjust manually to 200.

 

[fancy0479]

I got the same problem. I think my lens is clean.
ISO and EV won't fix this - I've tried multiple combinations.

 

[onlineharvest]

I got the same problem. I think my lens is clean.
ISO and EV won't fix this - I've tried multiple combinations.

Did you physically clean your lens? Could be a thin difficult to see layer. The difference is quite remarkable in the above link by ttsoldier.
Also, what combinations did you try?

 

[tonyluo2001]

Taken from another post..




You might also want to adjust manually to 200.

Did you physically clean your lens? Could be a thin difficult to see layer. The difference is quite remarkable in the above link by ttsoldier.
Also, what combinations did you try?

Thanks for sharing the links and advice, guys. I will try to clean it and test tonight. From the pictures, it does show a significant improvement from those flares.

 

[zokstar]

are you holding it steady? Using the camera button or touching screen to capture pic?

try touching screen to capture photo!

 

[sanders2232]

Also I didn't think this would make a difference but using the flash can help depending on the distance of the shot. Check this shot below, really dark setting one with flash and one without using night setting.

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=14699B2AC572D45A!1676&authkey=!AGxmjj66jihgios

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=14699B2AC572D45A!1675&authkey=!ADXiFbwH-MgZjBc

 

[fancy0479]

Did you physically clean your lens? Could be a thin difficult to see layer. The difference is quite remarkable in the above link by ttsoldier.
Also, what combinations did you try?

Yes, if my lens is not clean, I would notice it when shooting other photos.

 

[tonyluo2001]

are you holding it steady? Using the camera button or touching screen to capture pic?

try touching screen to capture photo!

I think I held it steady, but of course, holding a phone steady is much harder than hold a camera. I personally use a Cannon S95.

And I always use tap to capture, no flash but auto focus light.

 

[tonyluo2001]

Also I didn't think this would make a difference but using the flash can help depending on the distance of the shot. Check this shot below, really dark setting one with flash and one without using night setting.

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=14699B2AC572D45A!1676&authkey=!AGxmjj66jihgios

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=14699B2AC572D45A!1675&authkey=!ADXiFbwH-MgZjBc

The one without the glare, is that with flash or no?

My shots are done with all Auto setting, except no flash. I use the focus assistance light though.

 

[Jaripi]

Just checked ... without glare is with flash ... and without flash is the worse one ... both ISO 200 ...

 

[sanders2232]

The one without the glare, is that with flash or no?

My shots are done with all Auto setting, except no flash. I use the focus assistance light though.

Ya the better picture is with the flash, it gave less glare.