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Shooting at night with long-exposure noise reduction

Shooting at night with long-exposure noise reduction

From the course: Street Photography: The City at Night

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Shooting at night with long-exposure noise reduction

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- Alright, well I'm now in a slightly different location, but it's still the same beautiful New York City skyline. In this shot I thought I would highlight the Freedom Tower, which is kind of front and center, not exactly central, but compositionally important in the picture. I've got my 24-70 zoom lens on here because often when you come to a situation like this, you're limited to where you can actually be, so having a zoom gives you the flexibility of really being able to compose exactly the way you like to. And because it's a night scene, and a long exposure, with a Nikon, one of the features, and a lot of cameras have this, there's something called long exposure noise reduction. And why I put this on is it does something that just can't be replicated in post-processing. There's a certain kind of noise you get from long exposures that's related to the heat of the sensor, and long exposure noise reduction will reduce that noise. You can't do anything after the fact. The only…

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