![]() “I set it on Continuous and had it go for 10 minutes, and show the ride rise and swing people around in a circle, sit and rise and spin, sit and rise and spin…it was a really fun dynamic shot and wouldn’t be possible without the Continuous mode. So we added a mode called Continuous that as soon as it’s done taking one photo – so if that’s a 5-second long exposure, or 30 seconds – it will just take another one immediately.”ĭuring a launch party at the Great America theme park in the San Francisco Bay Area, Custer used Continuous mode on what he calls a “spinning chair ride.” It will have a cool effect, but I want it to look like it’s continuously moving. “I wanted to get a shot of a Ferris wheel spinning, and the shortest interval is, it takes a photo once every two minutes,” Custer says, referring to night time-lapse. You can break down to smaller megapixel ranges for narrower fields of view, but in terms of highest image quality, I would suggest keeping it wide and processed for not cropping it in.” Try continuous interval for smooth video-like shots “On our end that’s usually what we shoot. “Natively it’s going to be 12 megapixels,” Custer says about the Hero4. ![]() Always use the app.” Keep the camera at the highest resolution You kind of have to know the lights in the area you’re in, and make sure the camera is static. Keep at it, and you’ll just get more familiar with it, with scenarios and more settings. “You’re not really spending anything to get a bad shot. “Don’t be afraid of the camera,” Custer adds. Once you get comfortable with that, then you can start getting more tricky.” “Like, it feels good, the colors look sharp, contrast is nice … I can see the content and it’s sharp. ![]() “Everyone knows good exposure, even they don’t now the technical reasons why,” Custer says. Once you feel comfortable with your single shots, Custer says you can elevate to shooting nighttime lapses. , you can scroll through all the settings and tinker and fiddle: Take a photo and wait two seconds, and then you can see immediately if you like it.” ![]() That will give you a better experience of how the camera behaves. When the Hero4 came out I saw a lot of people on Reddit were shooting out their window and seeing what kind of exposures they can get. “Shoot back at yourself or shoot out the window. “If you’re completely new to it, set it up in your room in a dark space,” Custer says. “The app is a godsend in terms of how to use the camera because it’s free to use, it helps you frame up, and you can quickly see your photos without moving the camera. While the Hero4 Silver and Black’s settings can be adjusted using buttons on the camera, it’s far easier to shoot at night if you use the GoPro app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Are you getting light pollution from a street lamp, is it a full moon, or city lights.” Use the GoPro app But the deeper you jump into those modes, then it’s a little bit of a trial and error, because you’re not quite sure how bright your surroundings are. But if you want to do a little more experimental stuff like light painting, you can open that up to longer exposure times – 5, 10, 20, and 30 seconds. “Something like sunsets, it’s perfect because the quality and the intensity of the light is changing. “Given that it’s auto, you can’t really anticipate what you’re going to get,” Custer adds. ![]() GoPro HERO4: Introducing Night Photo + Night Lapse It’s a good introductory and you wrap your head around how it works. So I always recommend, if you’re completely new to night photo long exposures, start fiddling with Night Photo Auto and up to 2-second exposures – that just means the exposure will be open for a full 2 seconds. “I can’t always anticipate how bright that street lamp is. “Even I don’t get the shot the first time, every time,” Custer says. Don’t expect perfection the first time, and experiment So if you have a Hero4 Silver or Black in hand (GoPro makes a more affordable Hero, but the Silver and Black let you adjust settings that help with low-light shots), and want to try out the nighttime modes, here are some of Custer’s tips on how the GoPro team does it. Without prior knowledge of shooting night photography, Custer says, casual users are still able to capture great-looking shots (albeit with some experimenting and trial-and-error). Night Photo and Night Lapse were marketed as new features, and customers seem to have taken a shine to them. GoPro Hero7 Black: Worth the upgrade?īy the time the Hero4 came out, nighttime was ready for primetime. GoPro drops teaser video for Hero10 camera ahead of Thursday’s reveal GoPro takes to the skies with the Hero10 Black Bones ![]()
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