Burning Candles using Night Mode and Manual Settings
No 1
As promised, the photo of the burning candles. Stii was not very impressed because the photo is blurry, I thought it was excellent (soft, romantic). When taking this photo, the room was dark and I didn’t use any flash. The shutter speed was on 1/8 and aperture on f3.5. (I used one of the preset settings on the camera, night mode).
No 2
This was my second attempt tonight. This photo was also taken on the preset “night mode” setting on the camera. The same shutter speed of 1/8 and aperture of F3.5 is used by the preset mode. As can be seen, the difference in natural light makes a huge difference (compare this photo to the 1st photo).
No 3
This is exactly the same photo as the 2nd one, with the only difference being that I took this photo on a manual setting, where I had to set the shutter speed and aperture myself (luckily the camera guides you in the right direction by using a vertical bar indicating when the 2 setting are in balance). The shutter speed is 15″ and the aperture is F4.5. As can be seen, the manual setting provides a much better quality photo than the preset “night mode”.
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Tags: Photography, night shots, Canon S5IS
