Post your favorite night cruise pics!

[kevrab]

Phillipsburg, Saint Maarten---

 

[BORDER REIVER]

Cunard's Queen Victoria at sunset, seen from P&O's Aurora, in the North Sea.

[zackiedawg]

Some onboard ship night photos...

 

Zuiderdam's pool deck, with Orenjestad behind:

 

Emerald Princess' aft pool:

 

Emerald Princess main pool and Movies-under-the-Stars:

 

Kralendjik, Bonaire at night:

 

Emerald Princess at night in Aruba:

[travlnblueberries]

Zackiedawg, can you tell me what type of lens you were using on your night shots? I was wondering if I could capture anything good with 11-16 f2.8?

[zackiedawg]

No reason you shouldn't be able to get good results form an 11-16 F1.8 lens. For the wide angle ship night shots I was using a Tamron 10-24mm F3.5-4.5 lens...steadied on a rail or flat surface. Since I was using longer exposures, the faster apertures didn't matter so much - same would go for your 11-16mm lens. Best results would actually come from stopping down a little bit, to F4-8, and using a fixed surface to run some longer exposures in the 1/2 second to 1/8 second range, or a tripod and letting it go into several seconds or more.

[fireflies]

On Oasis of the Seas

 

From Celebrity Solstice

 

Docked In the Caribbean

 

Not from a cruise ship but in San Juan, Puerto Rico

[travlnblueberries]

No reason you shouldn't be able to get good results form an 11-16 F1.8 lens. For the wide angle ship night shots I was using a Tamron 10-24mm F3.5-4.5 lens...steadied on a rail or flat surface. Since I was using longer exposures, the faster apertures didn't matter so much - same would go for your 11-16mm lens. Best results would actually come from stopping down a little bit, to F4-8, and using a fixed surface to run some longer exposures in the 1/2 second to 1/8 second range, or a tripod and letting it go into several seconds or more.

 

Thank you:)

[Krazy Kruizers]

WOW!!

There are so many wonderful pictures!!

[awboater]

 

[boeckli]

Port of Miami on the bad day (debarkation!)

 

Dave

 

:) This brings back lots of great memories ... is that Norwegian Epic heading in?

[MDSue]

WOW!!

 

There are so many wonderful pictures!!

 

I agree! I always thought a tripod was necessary to great good night shots, but maybe not anymore.

 

Just curious, how many people use a tripod (never see them on the ships), or do you use a night setting, or what's everyone's secret to a great shot at night?

[mnbruce]

Here are mine. I must first express a debt of gratitude to Bruce. I noticed his image of Juneau when he first posted it and said “Wow,” and it was on my bucket list to get a similar image. So, from last summer’s trip…

 

:)

 

Your images are beautiful!

[mnbruce]

Port of Miami on the bad day (debarkation!)

 

 

Wonderful work!

[mnbruce]

Some onboard ship night photos...

 

 

Wonderful night images!

[mnbruce]

WOW!!

 

There are so many wonderful pictures!!

 

I completely agree. Every single poster here has beautiful images.

[awboater]

I agree! I always thought a tripod was necessary to great good night shots, but maybe not anymore.

 

Just curious, how many people use a tripod (never see them on the ships), or do you use a night setting, or what's everyone's secret to a great shot at night?

 

I do occasionally take a tripod or monopod, but I often use a railing, top of a deck chair, etc. to rest the camera on. At least something to help.

[pierces]

I agree! I always thought a tripod was necessary to great good night shots, but maybe not anymore.

 

Just curious, how many people use a tripod (never see them on the ships), or do you use a night setting, or what's everyone's secret to a great shot at night?

 

No tripod for either of my panoramas above. With the advent of stabilization and usable high ISO, I have reduced my tripod use to long exposures, staged still-life and macro shooting...none of which I usually do on a cruise.

 

I shoot in aperture priority about 99% of the time and hold the camera "real steady" when it drops the shutter speed too far. Not much of a secret...:D

 

I wrote an article on low-light photography that has some tips on getting by without a tripod: http://www.pptphoto.com/articles/lowlight.html

 

Dave

[The Grumpus]

I agree! I always thought a tripod was necessary to great good night shots, but maybe not anymore.

 

Just curious, how many people use a tripod (never see them on the ships), or do you use a night setting, or what's everyone's secret to a great shot at night?

No tripod on my pic either (post #17) but sometimes it will take me 4-5 shots before I hold the camera steady enough to get 1 that is in focus. I'm a newb with a DSLR, just got it right before the last cruise.

 

Dave, thanks for the link, I've been trying to figure out how to take good night shots by the "winging it" method, and not very successful so far. I will definitely check out your link.

[zackiedawg]

I do sometimes bring a tripod - especially Caribbean cruises since I drive to port and it makes packing less of an issue. I shoved a cheap tripod in my luggage to fly to Quebec, because I knew I wanted to walk around that city at night and take some long exposures. Many or most of my other night shots are as the others mentioned - steadied on a counter, a chair, a rail, or something flat, and taking advantage of higher ISO and image stability systems.

[pghsteelerfan]

Here are mine. I must first express a debt of gratitude to Bruce. I noticed his image of Juneau when he first posted it and said “Wow,” and it was on my bucket list to get a similar image. So, from last summer’s trip…

 

 

This is back under the Golden Gate Bridge on the same Alaska cruise.

 

 

And, a six second exposure somewhere in the Caribbean

 

 

Larry

 

Wow, these are beautiful!!!

[awboater]

Both of my shots were at ISO 200. You have to know your camera's capabilities and lots of practice.

 

And I'll admit these photos took more than one take.

[mnbruce]

Both of my shots were at ISO 200. You have to know your camera's capabilities and lots of practice.

 

And I'll admit these photos took more than one take.

 

Hand held at ISO 200? Pretty impressive.

[awboater]

Hand held at ISO 200? Pretty impressive.

 

Hand held/resting on something...

[MDSue]

Thanks everyone for the night shot tips. I've been wanting to buy a tripod, but I just can't imagine carrying one more thing with me- never knew how heavy just lenses could be!

 

Dave- Thanks for the link to your article. I'm looking forward to reading it.

 

Looking forward to more shots:)

[boeckli]

SuperStar Virgo leaving Hong Kong

 

 

Singapore - taken from 22nd floor of hotel

 

 

Disembarking Singapore pilot

 

 

On deck - Celebrity Solstice

 

 

Departing Sydney onboard Diamond Princess

 

 

Queen Elizabeth arrives in Tauranga - taken from Diamond Princess