Night shot at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a recommended spot of the Taipei. I am glad to come across here for the purpose of taking night spot with a group of people. 

Let's review a few impressive lesson learnt. The first subject I took for is the Liberty square (自由廣場). 

For decorating the main gate, I want to record the car track and starburst in this picture. For retrieving more detail of the car track, I increased the exposure time to 94 seconds with the following settings.

• camera and lens: Sony ILCE-7M3 + Sony FE 24 - 105mm F4.0 OSS 
• aperture: f/11
• ISO: 50 
• focal length: 33mm

The whole picture is too bright and the track could be bolder. Obviously, the trade-off is important when taking pictures.  

Sportsman and walking people

Sportsman is another material for decorating the main gate. Since the main subject of the previous pictures is the gate, we set the shutter speed as slow for retrieving more details and reducing ISO.

So when there is a sportsman, it's difficult to catch them clearly with the main gate at the same time.

• aperture: f/4.5
• shutter speed: 1/25
• iso: 3000
• focal length: 34m
• color temperature: around 2200k  

Let's try to catch walking people with the lower speed. This time the people is clearer than before but the building was treated as the background. 

To catch the building and walking people both clearly, we may have to reduce the aperture. However, the iso should be increased (the noise will be increased).  So we still have to make a trade-off when designing the picture.

• aperture: f/4.5
• shutter speed: 1/13
• iso: 4000
• focal length: 71mm 

Higher color temperature 

Anther new trying is adjusting the color temperature. The color temperature allows us to retrieve the picture like in the different timing. Even in the night, we can retrieve the picture at the dusk. 

• aperture: f/4.5
• shutter speed: 1/13
• iso: 4000
• focal length: 38mm
• color temperature: around 8000k  

Summary

Summary I really need to give respects to professional photographer. It not only requires knowledges of photography but also good physical strength. 

However, it's still a fascinating and interesting habit. Welcome to comment or share if there is any interesting activities or tasks of photography you have recently.