Can You Tell What This Is?(UFO? Giant Robot? Photon Cannon?)

[Artimus Gigan]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v40/00pie/omgpicture.jpg


I think I may need a new camera, I have a Mustek MDC 4000 it's 4.1 megapixles


the picture that is up there is supposed to be of a radio tower at night

but as you can see the quality sucks....

what reasonably priced Digital Cameras are able to take decent night photos without skewing and blurring everything?

[RD!]

Looks like a radio tower at night to me.

[Mog]

^Ditto^

What were you expecting? A camera's flash isn't that powerful past 20 feet. To reach that you would need a spotlight or something.

[Artimus Gigan]

Well i figured it would atleast have the bars inbetween the blinkers to be seen connecting them so it would differ from the sky and not look like the lights are suspended in the air.

it was taken from a fairly well lit area though and I was directly across and as close as I could get to it without actualy going into the(possibly no tresspassing allowed)field it's in.

bah maybe I should have aimed to take it in an ealier time like twilight so there could be atleast some light

[Lord Dalek]

Either a radio tower or a smokestack.

[cross blues]

bah maybe I should have aimed to take it in an ealier time like twilight so there could be atleast some light
taking a picture while there's light instead of hoping for a magical great picture in complete darkness, brilliant!

but if you're going for a radio tower at night, that's exactly what it looks like.

[Outlander00]

I think he wants to get the colors more vibrant... more deffinition and stuff like that.

To answer your question... Unfortunately, a lot of point and shoot cameras wont get you the feel that you want, and usually requires a higher end digital or a SLR film camera... something you have more control over the aperature and shutter speed.

However... perhaps setting your camera to the lowest ISO (speed) setting (100 ISO) and hoping for the best may work, because then the shutter will take longer to close, allowing more light in. Also, try using photoshop to see if photo correcting it will work.

[Artimus Gigan]

taking a picture while there's light instead of hoping for a magical great picture in complete darkness, brilliant!

but if you're going for a radio tower at night, that's exactly what it looks like.
It wasn't exactly complete darkness, it never really gets that dark around here due to the light pollution from the city, the sky at night always seems to have a redish hue, it's never pitch black like that in the picture...

I also thought that the highway that was illuminated would provide some source of signifigant light...


I did however have it set to the lowest ISO setting and the highest picle setting

[LightShadow1890]

Hm...yeah.....looks like a radio tower. Seen one in LI at night. I'm guessing your camera could only get the blinking lights.

LightShadow1890

[guinaevere]

Unless you have some crazy flash, for something like this you need an SLR (with the ability to leave the shutter open for ages). And leaving the shutter open for any amount of time, you're going to pick up all camera movement/vibration. So, an SLR and a tripod. :D

[Artimus Gigan]

Unless you have some crazy flash, for something like this you need an SLR (with the ability to leave the shutter open for ages). And leaving the shutter open for any amount of time, you're going to pick up all camera movement/vibration. So, an SLR and a tripod. :DI thought about a tri-pod

but the overpass where I took it from is right near a highway, infact it leads to an entrence to said highway...however I stood on the walkway of the overpass but the funny thing is that there is no concrete way to get to the walk way, it's by a abandoned bus stop(you can tell it's abandoned due to the grass growth and the weeds and that there is no bus stops here sign, it's just the booth) you sorta have to cross a "Y" connector in the road to get there, the walk way really leads to nothing...so it's use as a walk way is non-existant

so a tri-pod would be sorta cumbersome, you have to walk a bit from the nearest sidestreet that you casn park.

[guinaevere]

You don't have to buy an enormous tripod, Gigan. And they do fold up, in case you didn't know. In any event, it will be necessary.

But again, a tripod without keeping the shutter open for an extended period of time is going to be fairly useless for the picture you're hoping to achieve.