Night Photography can suck sometimes because most of the mid range and low budget smartphones that are very common actually struggle to capture images in low light situations so most people just avoid taking pictures at night. I decided to outline the important steps on how to take amazing pictures at night.

1# Try To Keep The Camera Steady

There's no way you'll get that perfect image if you're shaking your hands like a tremor patient. To avoid blurred images just try to keep the camera as steady as possible.
You can even go for a tripod which is the best option to take perfectly sharp shots. If you don’t have a tripod then you can try placing your phone on a wall, or any other solid surface and make use of the timer button on Camera interface.


2# Choose An Area With Good Lighting
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Lit up areas like street lights are good for drawing attention in dark environments. Make sure the subject is getting enough light to draw the attention. When you combine the lighting with your LED flash it should look good. However, in some cases it may not work well.


3# Learn To Go Manual

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If you want to take better images, you need to learn how to adjust settings manually - exposure , aperture etc.. The default camera app usually comes with a couple of options that'll come in handy if you know how to use it.

#4 Turn On HDR
HDR recognizes different light intensities and then tries to dynamically balance the image. In low light situations, this features competitively helps to take better shots.


#5 ISO
You might have seen this in many camera apps. This can increase the sensitivity of the camera sensor or decreases to capture more or less light. Try to increase the value of the ISO to increase the amount of light and details in low light situations.

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#6 Know When To Use Your Flash

This hardware is meant to support the camera in low light conditions, however bad camera flashes can affect photo clarity. Keeping it turned off should produce better results.

#7 Set Your Shutter Speed
The speed at which your camera takes the picture is really important . The more time the camera takes to capture the images the better the details captured and the light intensity will be.

#8 Use A Good Camera App

Different camera apps process images differently and also detect images in varying ways. Try to use the best camera app of your choice for night photography and it could actually help you transform your pictures to amazing ones. I recommend using ToolWiz Photos. It comes with an extensive photo editor and camera . There are tons of features to choose from

Here are a couple of images shot on ToolWiz on a phone with a 5 MP camera . I may have added some odd filters.

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#9 Use Additional Gadgets

Add-on lights and small OTG flashes can help to increase the quality of the default camera hardware thus producing impressive results.

#10 Don’t Zoom

Most cameras tend to look a little bit grainy when zoomed in. You need to consider the capacity of your phone’s camera. Digital zoom on some smartphones is usually pretty useless and only ruins the picture. If you have to zoom, you can try to move closer to the subject.Also, if you still need to highlight a particular object in the photo, you can crop it.

#11 Make use of Filters

Your choice of filters can either improve or ruin your pictures so choose wisely.

#12 Image Editing

A good editor will definitely improve your images. You can set the contrast, exposure, blur , effects and more. Like I recommended previously. Tool Wiz Photos will give you a proper image editing experience.

http://www.naijatechguy.com/2018/06/how-to-take-better-pictures-at-night_5.html

Thanks op. I usually see that ISO and HDR, but don't know their functions.

thanks for this insight

Getintouch2004:
Thanks op. I usually that ISO and HDR, but don't know t. their functions.

thanks for this insight

You're welcome bro

Nothing informative here. All these are obvious

Getintouch2004:
Thanks op. I usually see that ISO and HDR, but don't know their functions.

thanks for this insight

ISO is the measure of camera sensor's sensitivity to light
you used higher ISO in a darker place, but use lower ISO in an exposed place to avoid the picture having noise

I tried to do some night time photography in my comparison video between 2 smartphones, the TECNO Camon X Pro and Phantom 8.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_iMigpAl-0&t=199s

and even Infinix Hot 6 Pro and Hot S3


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpYmivda3So

Honestly, i don't recommend taking photos at night without flash on your smartphone. Even iPhone X doesn't deliver, maybe i need to try Google pixel 2.

MicheyJ1:
Nothing informative here. All these are obvious

Wehdone sir.. Awon Photographer

henry007:
I tried to do some night time photography in my comparison video between 2 smartphones, the TECNO Camon X Pro and Phantom 8.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_iMigpAl-0&t=199s

Honestly, i don't recommend taking photos at night without flash on your smartphone. Even iPhone X doesn't deliver, maybe i need to try Google pixel 2.

I can only think of one ground breaker - I bet It'll beat the iPhone X - Huawei P20 Pro

NaijaTechGuy:


I can only think of one ground breaker - I bet It'll beat the iPhone X - Huawei P20 Pro

Maybe it's groundbreaking on DXOMark but in actual camera comparison that MKBHD did, it wasn't my first, second or third favourite

henry007:


Maybe it's groundbreaking on DXOMark but in actual camera comparison that MKBHD did, it wasn't my first, second or third favourite

Alright. I better go look up the video.. The pictures I saw taken on the phone looked pretty good in low light.

NA TORCH LIGHT GO DO AM

Noted! Thanks op

If u stay on Mushin, Ajegunle or Oshodi, plz dont try the no1 or else. You will just pose and say cheese tire the camera will not make clicking sound till you go and check. Yepa! Fone don loss. Who like am pass u don take am

Nice

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Good one.

No. 4 not entirely correct. HDR doesn't work too well under low light conditions, too much noise and distortions

13. Use a good phone

Photographers. Meet here

we using iphone 7plus don't need posts like this

hmmm

tremor patient. finishing

henry007:


Maybe it's groundbreaking on DXOMark but in actual camera comparison that MKBHD did, it wasn't my first, second or third favourite

actually I don't think there is any camera smartphone that beats the waway p20 pro. The back camera is the bomb . night shot see the best.with 5x zoom. Oga no go there.
If you hate huawei,no condemn am Abeg.iphone X camera no reach am at all.

Honorable mention to the Google pixel 2 xl

CHESTER48:
actually I don't think there is any camera smartphone that beats the waway p20 pro. The back camera is the bomb . night shot see the best.with 5x zoom. Oga no go there.
If you hate huawei,no condemn am Abeg.iphone X camera no reach am at all.

Honorable mention to the Google pixel 2 xl

Get a pen and paper, watch this video and give them points.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD_3wMh5kLg

Upload your results.

CHESTER48:
sir with all due respect did you watch that video on 720p?

I'm a YouTuber uploading 4K videos, what do you think?

Watch it and show your working. Let us see

CHESTER48:
no need of watching that video tho.ive watched tons of videos comparison.and my choice is still p20 pro.runner up is Google pixel 2 xl

No need to watch an MKBHD video, how?