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Originally Posted by Huck
So I still have a lot to learn, but I've been playing around with night time photography and I took these last night. Using a D5100 with the stock 18-55mm lens. He problem I'm running into is that the street light next to my driveway makes a lot of the pics come out super orange/yellow colored. I'm trying to play with the white balance but not having much luck.
My street
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And my neighbors cars just for fun
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It would help if you posted your Shutter speed, aperture & ISO settings. Mixing lights with different color temps is always a bit tricky when setting white balance. You need to set a custom white balance.
Here's how to set it:
-Go to the location of your shoot. You'll need a gray card or at least something close to it in color (something neutral).
-hold down the WB button and turn the thumb wheel until it's set to "PRE"
-"PRE" will blink
-point your camera at the gray and click the shutter button. It should say "Good" if done correctly. That's it.
Alternatively, you can shoot in RAW and fiddle with the white balance afterwards.
For night landscape type photography, I usually do this:
-Set it to manual
-Set White Balance (see above)
-Set ISO to the lowest normal speed. I usually go with 100 or 200 the most.
-Set the aperture between f/8-f/11 if you want just about everything in focus.
Now all you have to worry about is the shutter speed. It's going to vary depending on how you want the scene to look. Just take a few shots until you see the one you want. Because of the ISO speed and aperture, you'll probably need to start at 1 second, then 2 second.....etc.