Long Exposure stresses
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Loading ...Seeing that Monday night is Liz’s night of basically plonking herself in front of the telly box (soap heaven), I decided I would get out once again and try my hand at long exposure shots.
I find this subject really stressful to be honest but really want to nail it. I read numerous online articles, books plus take advice from other photographers but still not getting what I am after. Each time I take shots I get masses of digital noise (pixellated shots) within the image. I am either doing something incredibly wrong or my camera just cant cope (hope its not the latter). Well after 90 minutes of freezing, even though its not even winter yet I decided enough was enough and came home to see what I had caught. Can say that 2 images are not to bad out of the 20 I took but still getting lots of digital noise on the image, anyway the one in the post is possibly the best BUT I have just looked at the original file and it looks better than what you are seeing here (highly confused, possibly the conversion to a smaller file).
This was taking on a Manual setting which I set at the following, Aperture F11, Shutter Speed 15 secs.
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Neil 
Neil, you are always going to get “noise” in these type shots. Simply because of the camera compensating for the dim light.
It does help reduce the noise with a better camera. I believe you are using a Sony A200?
I think you’ll find that if you shoot in Raw format and then edit, maybe the noise will be reduced some? I never thought of trying this myself yet as I am just learning myself and I normally just shoot in jpg forgetting to change mode to raw. PLus, raw images do take up a lot of memory space on the PC.
You are not doing anything wrong, you just need a high end camera for the perfect picture you are wanting.
Thank you Maggie, seems like I am going to have to keep trying.
Even though there is a bit noise Neil the photo is still very good.
As Maggie says, shooting in RAW is a better option but with the A200, as it is isn’t a high end model the shooting with jpeg and Noise Ruduction switched on would suit you better. Shooting with RAW turns the NR off!
Keep it up…