Question on better night time photography

[Drestin Black]

Very nice. I'd like to see the full size on that in Photoshop.
How did you process it?

Pulled original jpeg off p4 loaded into Instagram, adjusted contrast, saturation and sharpness and published. That straight forward. I used Auto + (I think) Trucolor. Windless night helped.


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[jephoto]

Ah. P4. Maybe it Does have better image quality than the 3. I'd love to do some side by side comparisons.


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[Drestin Black]

Same place just different angle - no post at all


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[Drestin Black]

P4 HDR but otherwise full auto ISO 1600 1/3s no wind

Needs a noise filter run on it, though.


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[jephoto]

Nice work. Detroit?


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[Drestin Black]

Yes. Thank you!


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[jskdog]

ISO 200, can't remember the shutter speed but auto was useless. Just play around with the manual settings it's good fun and straight forward, any adjustments show up real time.

 

[kupua]

Thanks for the discussion... I want to do this now.

 

[fabbio]

I pretty much use manual mode + some photoshop for sharpening and pray its no windy. Lol here's a pic of the port of Miami at night.

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I think I know this place lah ;-)

 

[Van]

Took these in a variety of iso / shutter speeds (yeah, I know this is a P3 forum, but the same settings on my P3S produce similar results):

Last shot - DJI_0117 (which I think was the best) was 800 ISO / 100 shutter speed.

Playing around in auto with differing ISO settings / shutter speeds will find the right mix for the lighting at hand.

 

[Bill Richardson]

Hi

I've taken a liking to try to photograph a couple of installations lit up at night time...but I seem to keep getting a bit of blur...and/or the red lights of the phantom causing a haze on the pic.

If I use manual settings, there just isn't enough ambient light to merit a fast shutter speed without very high ISO.

Q1 Do 'good' photographers on here ALWAYS use manual mode or is the Phantom Pro's camera good enough to be relied on using in auto?

and Q2 Is there anything in particular that others do to improve photo quality in mildly windy conditions?


Thanks
Kris

All of these photos look like they were taken more than 30 minutes after dusk. What about FAA Part 107?

 

[Drestin Black]

All of these photos look like they were taken more than 30 minutes after dusk. What about FAA Part 107?

Hobbyist can fly at night and 107 Pilots can request waivers

 

[Sonic Fusion]

Drestin, nice work!


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[Van]

All of these photos look like they were taken more than 30 minutes after dusk. What about FAA Part 107?

Not a commercial flight.

OP was requesting night settings. The only point of my putting the bird up to take them, as I am similarly intrigued about best settings. You'll also note altitude was 50 ft. in the pool area of my apt. complex.

No rules broken, here. ;-)