One way to reduce blowout is to take a dark picture and then brighten it in Zoner Photo Studio, and then darken the brightest parts again (using the Lights slider in the Develop module). This will create blowout in the flame, but here it’s acceptable. So it’s not practical here to stick to the rules about avoiding blowout.
Sadly that’s so short that not even the white wax a centimeter from the flame is still visible.
CANDLELIGHT BACKGROUND ISO
Take a look at this series of pictures with different exposure levels: For each picture I used an ISO of 100 and an aperture of f/2.8, with different exposure times.Įvery shot suffered blowout except the last, which had a time of 1/1000 s. But its flame, meanwhile, shines so brightly that part of the flame usually suffers from blowout. A candle doesn’t give off much light, and so its surroundings are barely visible.
And it’s not at all about a lack of light. Things get dicey when you’re photographing candles. But nobody is going to be very happy with a smoked-up front lens, so if it’s at all possible, go instead for a lens that will let you shoot from farther away. Some lenses let you zoom in a lot, but offer this at the cost of making you get very close to the subject. If you plan to shoot from close up, then you want to check your lens’s minimum focusing distance before you shoot. These are reflections off the upper and lower surfaces of the glass. Just be aware that in some cases you’ll get two reflections right on top of each other, which can make part of a picture look blurry. When shooting at low angles, even normal transparent glass will give you reflections. A black-glass tabletop creates a slightly mirrored image. I chose a table with a black-glass plate on top, which also plays a part in my compositions-the candles are reflected off of it. Because of this risk, put them on top of something that you can easily clean or throw away after your shoot. When you’re arranging them into patterns, you can easily bump one of them a bit too much and make the wax spurt out. Tea lights sit low, and when they’re burning, their puddles of molten wax can reach out to the edge of them.
Safety Firstĭo I even need to say that fire is dangerous, and you should be careful not to burn anything? But what might not be so obvious is: wax. I picked up a ten-pack, and so ten is the most candles you’ll see in my photos here.
CANDLELIGHT BACKGROUND HOW TO
Read on to learn how to handle the technical aspect of a shoot like this, plus some ideas for arranging the candles.įor almost all of these photos, I used ordinary tea lights-they’re very cheap, and so you can buy plenty to enable complex compositions. They’re easy to get, and around Christmas they’re often right at hand. But there’s plenty of opportunities indoors. Winter’s here, and it’s brought early sunsets that handicap outdoor photography.
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