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Originally Posted by kakucaekz
I do have a tripod, and I brought it lol. It's just that without flash it looked so dark. What settings should I have used?
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If there is poor lighting, you can try leaving the shutter open longer, but a tripod is crucial for this because you can't keep the camera completely still for 10+ seconds.
Put camera on av (or aperture priority), set aperture to f/8 or so (or wide open if you want to blur the background), compose, set focus point, and let the camera calculate shutter speed, and make note of how long it opens the shutter for.
If the picture is still too dark, change it to manual, change all settings (Aperture, ISO) to what it was in av, and manually increase shutter speed.
If you have an external flash, there's a "test fire" button that will just strobe the flash and while the shutter is open you can move around the car and light it from the top using this to artificially create overhead lighting.
Also, taking long exposures, especially under sodium lights, will make your picture very yellow and generally unpleasant, so try shooting in raw to make adjustments later, or just post-process the jpeg you took in photoshop to adjust the colour
