Tonight I went out to take pictures on the phone in the city.

At night, there is little light and everything becomes darker, which means it reflects less light rays and loses its color.

If we take pictures of a tree branch during the day, it will be juicy and green. Because the surface of the leaves reflects a lot of light of the green spectrum, and absorbs the rest.

And at night, in principle, there is little light and the color of the lanterns differs from the color of the sun. The lights give out a very limited spectrum and the colors are not natural.

If we photograph the same branch at night that we photographed during the day, then it will no longer be green, but will be dark, almost black and will merge with the grass.

How can I take a picture so that the branch is clearly visible and it is not black?

Naturally, I didn't have any lighting devices with me on a walk, and I began to look for them in the neighborhood. A few minutes later, I saw a lantern hanging low over the shop's canopy and in front of it a lawn and small bushes.

The lantern shines on the branches of the bushes.

So you can shoot two options.

Or take pictures from the side of the lantern that illuminates the bush. But in this case, everything will be flat, the background will be black and the branches will merge with the grass.

The right solution would be to find a shooting point at which the lantern will be located directly behind the leaves of the branch that we want to photograph.

What does this give us?

1 - a contour light appears and the leaves begin to shine through, letting the light through themselves and, as it were, glow. Their color is manifested. They turn green

2 - In addition, the light contours of the entire branch and leaves appear, which separates it well from a darker background.

I crawled across the lawn and a minute later found a point where the lantern hid behind the leaves and beautifully outlined a branch. I tried to make the background less black from behind, and took a part of the wall illuminated by a lantern and the sky into the frame. I put together the frame so that it was balanced, froze so as not to blur the frame during photographing. And got a good shot of twigs in the night.

Thank you for reading to the end!

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