How do I take good photos of sky lanterns?

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rb


There's a sky lantern festival happening tomorrow night, and I really wanna take some good shots of the lanterns as they take into the sky. Does anyone have any good settings on a DSLR camera for shots like these? (I own a Canon 500D). Thanks!


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I'd use my Nikon with it's 35-80 zoom lens set to 80, that the best camera I got right now but it's definitely not adequate.

I used to own a Pentax K-1000 with an assortment of lenses, still do but they're wore out and won't work anymore. Now if you got something similar to a Pentax system---try to do this.

Use ASA 1000 film as I assume you'll be shoot at night, 200 for day. Using a 75-260 zoom lens and bracing yourself against something solid like the roof of your car to avoid hand shake track the subject and shoot.

I recommend you use a flash attachment. The flash won't really carry more than 15 yards but it will reflect and expose an image behind it's principal source of light.

I use a flash to explain UFO's and often I get helicopters and F-117's and when I know what they are they ain't UFO's anymore.

Good luck and good shooting.

Hope you win a prize in "Popular Photography".

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Aaron


So, I recently bought a DSLR (Nikon D5000). Please enlighten me with any of your DSLR knowledge. Thanks!


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These sites should help:

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Camera-Lenses-explained-12426

http://photo.net/learn/making-photographs/lens

You might consider buying this book also: "David Busch's Quick Snap Guide to Using Digital SLR Lenses" http://www.dbusch.com




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