This article on how to reduce noise for photographs:

"Use smaller ISO and longer exposure times."

"Also beware using longer exposure times."

Meanwhile I'm cranking the ISO to max!

@doxxy Whee!

Longer exposure and lower ISO actually works great for reducing /noise/, but increases /blur/.

@doxxy If you have long enough exposures, camera shake starts to become a problem.

@doxxy oh!! or d'you mean 'it's blurry so it must be a fast photo'? Oops!

@IceWolf I tried manual settings and made a fully black image! :D

@doxxy Hah! :3

(if you don't know how the different settings interact, we can help with that!)

@IceWolf I've only got basic clues right now. I'm trying to identify which thingy and how to change it right now.

I found ISO, Shutter Speed, and fstops (can't remember what fstops do)

@doxxy fstops is aperture! i.e. how wide open the light hole is.

– ISO is the amplification of the sensor: turn it up, get brighter but noisier images.
– Shutter speed is, well, shutter speed. If it's faster (1/higher numbers), you get a dimmer picture, but less blur, and vice versa.
– (The photo is effectively an /overlay/ of a bunch of instantaneous captures, so moving the camera while it's taking a photo blurs the picture. Really long exposures get you things like star trails, but you better grab a tripod for that.)
– Aperture: wider aperture – LOWER f-stop numbers, for some reason – gets you more light, and also more depth-of-field background/foreground blur!

@IceWolf Ooo. So low number for aperature is better for low light maybe? I kind of played with the settings a bit in my not so well-lit room so am gonna see how this photo turned out.

@doxxy Yellow? *blinks, amused whuffs* Check your white balance.

If you're shooting in RAW white balance doesn't matter for later, you can fix it in post, but still.

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@doxxy If auto white balance makes it yellow, try "daylight".

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