Photo was taken on the night before Deepavali. Note the huge crowd crossing the road.
A lot of people are now calling the celebration Diwali instead of Deepavali. I don't know why.
- Nikon D600, 28-300mm f3.5-5.6
- At 135mm, f11, ISO 6400, 1/30 seconds
- Manual exposure, center-weighted metering, auto white balance
- Picasa: Crop, straighten
For a shot like this, you want to zoom in so that the lights are compressed together due to telephoto perspective. The problem with that is that you get shallow depth of field at the telephoto end, so you need to stop down the aperture. The problem with that is that it is night, so you don't have much light.
Luckily, today's high-ISO DSLRs come to the rescue! Push to ISO 6400. No problem. Either that or use a tripod.
For uneven lighting like this, manual exposure is best. Check the exposure by playing back the image on the camera's LCD screen.
