I’ve been doing a bunch of shooting at night with a high shutter speed (1/320th), allowing the camera to ramp the ISO as high as 12,800. Images at that ISO are rarely that good but for moody, dark images I can get away with a lot of noise reduction. I’ll post a bunch of these over the next couple of days. This shot of Bryant Park was taken from a cab moving up Sixth Avenue.
Question for you: why does my Nighttime Portrait setting always use flash, but the Nighttime Landscape setting does not? The manual doesn’t explain it and it puzzles me. Thanks, Adam.
Can’t say for sure but at a guess, a flash isn’t powerful enough to light a landscape. Instead, a night landscape is taken on a tripod whereas a night portrait is close enough and narrow enough to be successfully lit.
Thank you! That makes sense. Why couldn’t they just explain that in the manual…..
Manuals aren’t what they used to be.