Tip for shooting outdoor Christmas and Holiday Lights:
Instead of waiting until dark, shoot about 15-30 minutes after sunset. Think twilight or dusk. Instead of having a boring black sky, you will have a beautiful deep blue sky as a backdrop to the colorful lights.
(Two more tips to follow on how to make your Christmas light photos more eye catching and interesting.)
9 comments:
It almost looks like a storybook picture!
The lighting of the Temple is lovely even without the Christmas lights. Looking forward to more tips.
Absolutely stunning photography.
Mersad
Mersad Donko Photography
What a gorgeous photo. The background sky is perfect, and I look forward to your other tips.
Spectacular. How about a tip on how you keep people out of the way of your picture taking.
stunning, the building and the photo. so beautiful
Thank you for this tip. I don't do much night photography. I dislike using my tripod!
John, when I shoot Christmas lights on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, there are hoards of people everywhere and it is almost impossible to get a shot like this. Here in St. George, Utah, however, (a much smaller community), there were very few people around, even at this early time of evening. Lucky me!
Barb, I hear you! I also dislike using a tripod, and I fought with it the whole time I was shooting last night. But I put up with it when necessary to get the look I'm after.
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