<![CDATA[Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K)]]>Did a photoshoot of some friends bikes last night. This was my first time taking low light pics, and actually messing with my camera. I also realized how much I need a tripod. any advice and comments welcome. camera was a canon S3IS.

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]]>https://fargostreet.com/topic/11279/bike-photoshoot-i-did-last-night-no-56kRSS for NodeThu, 28 May 2026 17:16:38 GMTMon, 16 Jul 2007 04:04:06 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:54:09 GMT]]>Ur kinda right, you dont exactly have to tell the camera what white is you just have to calibrate it for the light you are shooting in at the time. Most of the time this is done by simply shooting a grey card in the same light as your shooting in. A grey card is just a piece of card board colored grey with 18% reflectance across the visible spectrum. Select the picture with grey card in it and use ur "eval" function on the gray card and its set. Doing this will set ur white balance and correct the color for all the shots in that shoot. For his shoot he should of just changed his white balance to one of the preset white balance setting like tungsten, fluorescent, and daylight. For those pictures tungsten is what you should have used. Another thing for shooting at night, if you dont have a tripod never go lower than 1/125sec for hand held, also try raising ur ISO (film speed) as high as you can without getting a lot of noise and sacrificing quality.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/168899https://fargostreet.com/post/168899Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:54:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:51:35 GMT]]>by adjusting the white balance u are basicaly telling the camera what is "white" do to there being many different types of light sources each casting different colors of light

can u see how everything is yellow in the pics? well by not setting a the white balance the camera thinks the yellow light from the street lights is what "white" is
making every other color basically look like poop

easiest/fastest way ive found with my s3is is to press the "func" botton, the second choice down has preset white balance to choose from, scroll to eval. white balance focus on something white in color like a peice of paper and press set. it may take more then 1 time to get it to look right. theres another trick that ive used before just take a white coffe filter over the lens and point the camera at the light source and set the white balance

u basically have to tell the camera what "white" is

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/168831https://fargostreet.com/post/168831Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:51:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:53:59 GMT]]>

Turbo5Oh;179385 wrote:
did u intentionaly set up the white balance like that?

mmm, did not really mess with it. just did some messing with the exposure time. changing the white balance would affect what?

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/168824https://fargostreet.com/post/168824Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:53:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:31:50 GMT]]>did u intentionaly set up the white balance like that?

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/168821https://fargostreet.com/post/168821Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:31:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:57:10 GMT]]>Well finally i can get on here again!!! Thanks again faber for taking the pictures for us. The RR is kyle marrow,R6 is steve johnson's,and the GSXR is mine. My wife bought it for me for my wedding present... Thankx again faber.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/168774https://fargostreet.com/post/168774Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:57:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:49:06 GMT]]>nice pics man yeah taking night pics suck with no tri-pod i need to get one to car night pics look so much better.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166778https://fargostreet.com/post/166778Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:49:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:28:46 GMT]]>

dubbsy;177271 wrote:
only if you're using a flash which isn't going to be reccomended.

Yup.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166774https://fargostreet.com/post/166774Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:28:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:27:43 GMT]]>LOL! Ya, I took some with a normal exposure time and they turned out really dark to the point were you could only identify that it was a bike, no colors or anything. I added more exposure time for these pics so they wouldnt be so dark. with more exposure the camera get really sensitive to movement.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166773https://fargostreet.com/post/166773Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:27:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:25:35 GMT]]>

weshole;177269 wrote:
Even without a tripod and at night, they should be clearer. Lay off the meth Faber. LOL!!!

only if you're using a flash which isn't going to be reccomended.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166772https://fargostreet.com/post/166772Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:25:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:21:49 GMT]]>Even without a tripod and at night, they should be clearer. Lay off the meth Faber. LOL!!!

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166770https://fargostreet.com/post/166770Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:21:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:57:14 GMT]]>Buy focus you mean the pics a bit blurry right? I know this, taking pics at night with out a tripod FTL.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166768https://fargostreet.com/post/166768Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:57:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:40:32 GMT]]>

weshole;177254 wrote:
I thought it was because I had just woke up but nope...... You need to work on your focus.

agreed... other than that the pictures are pretty good...

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166757https://fargostreet.com/post/166757Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:40:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:55:00 GMT]]>I thought it was because I had just woke up but nope...... You need to work on your focus.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166755https://fargostreet.com/post/166755Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:55:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:14:34 GMT]]>hardees it is

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166752https://fargostreet.com/post/166752Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:14:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:32:28 GMT]]>Looking good faber

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166743https://fargostreet.com/post/166743Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:32:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:19:09 GMT]]>

Rexwagon;177239 wrote:
haha^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

when do u wanna take some pics of my car?

When ever. As long as you buy me some hardees! I need to find some places to take pictures.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166741https://fargostreet.com/post/166741Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:19:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:14:56 GMT]]>haha^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

when do u wanna take some pics of my car?

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166740https://fargostreet.com/post/166740Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:14:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:50:22 GMT]]>looks good, cept for the last ugly maroon bike.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166739https://fargostreet.com/post/166739Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:50:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bike photoshoot I did last night(NO 56K) on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:41:39 GMT]]>Yeah, tripods make a WORLD of difference at night.

Cool pic of the tach revving.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/166738https://fargostreet.com/post/166738Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:41:39 GMT