LF focus at night

[John MacKechnie]

Ok. How do you do it? Any tips would be appreciated.

John

[Eric James]

I carry a small LED light with me - a trick I learned on this forum. It can be placed somewhere in your desired focus plane to aid focus and composition, and then removed after everything is ready to go.

[vinny]

Those fancy high powered green lasers attached to a flexible arm will work well too. Or get some monkeys to hold flashlights.

[Daniel_Buck]

Those fancy high powered green lasers attached to a flexible arm will work well too. Or get some monkeys to hold flashlights.

I've wondered about those green lasers! I see I'm not the only one who thought it might be a good idea! Have you tried it? Does it work fairly well? I may have to pick one up now

I usually carry a flashlight with me, that's been doing ok so far, especially for closer objects.

[Steven Barall]

You can glue fireflys to various things in the scene. The problem with monkeys is that they fling their poo.

[Ben Chase]

1 million candlepower spotlight.

[Greg Lockrey]

Focus in the day time and wait.

[wfwhitaker]

Focus in the day time and wait.

You joke. I've actually done that!

[Greg Lockrey]

You joke. I've actually done that!

So have I, but it was to photograph a building at dusk and wait for night to get the interior lights in the windows.

[Geert]

1 million candlepower spotlight.

Ditto here. Drawback is the limited independency, only 15 minutes before the beatteries are drained en need to be recharged.

G