By: Blonde Two
As you know we Blondes do love a bit of wild camping. Above you can see a recent picture of our tent in one of our favourite ‘walk-out-at-night’ spots. We do lots of Blonde things when we arrive at camp, some you might expect such as: pitch the tent, lay out our beds, eat some snacks and snuggle in. We do those quite well, but the one thing that we always try to do but never succeed at is taking one of THOSE tent photos.
You know the type of thing, dark night, empty moor and a perfect picture of a beautifully lit up tent. We have tried everything, we have brought extra lights, we have flashed, we have not flashed, we have shone torches, we have not shone torches and nothing seems to work.
Now what we need is a friendly photographer-type person to tell us where we are going wrong.
For tent pictures you will be needing a tripod. I use a small one for my DSLR camera, being the Gorillapod.
Adjust your iso to a high value (ex. Iso3200) and a shutter time of 5-10 seconds. (If you use longer shutter times you risk having startrails)
And if there is a stabilisator build in with your lens, turn it of and put it on manual. No auto focus.
To light up the tent you need a second person inside the tent who shines around inside the tent with a (head)torch.
Hope this helps a bit.
Regards David
Is this the wrong time to admit that we only have mobile phones? Thank you for the advice though I think we do have a tripod somewhere… and maybe a camera.
I think that there I probably an app for either iPhone or Android that gives the possibility for long shutter pictures, but I am not completely sure.
If not it will be hard to get those pictures.
Regards,
David
Now that would be an outdoor app worth finding! Thank you