From the course: Landscape Photography: Night Landscape

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Focusing at night

Focusing at night

From the course: Landscape Photography: Night Landscape

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Focusing at night

- When you're doing night photography one of the most challenging aspects can sometimes revolve around focus. Sometimes it's just very hard to get a good focus at night just simply because it's dark. The way that modern auto-focus cameras work is they use a phase detection type of auto-focus and it needs to see contrast in the scene. It sort of resolves the contrast between different parts of the scene until it can get it nice and sharp. And of course, when it's dark out you can't see the contrast in the scene and that's why your lens is not gonna be able to focus at night as well. So, there are a couple of ways you can get around with this and work with this. What I'm shooting right now is the ruins of an old trailer here on the edge of the Salton Sea and fortunately it's close enough that I can use my flashlight and just throw a beam of light on it here and focus on that. So, let me just focus here and just adjust this and get an auto-focus, bring the camera down a bit here. Okay…

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