is it possible to take picture in dark room without using normal flash?

Question

i tried to take some ,but pictures aren't that good with the reflection of flash.

Answer 1

Yes it is possible, just not easy.

If you're photographing something that doesn't move (like a still-life) you can just open your f-stop wide (f2 or lower) and set your shutter speed to very long (2+ seconds or longer) exposure. You have to use a tripod for this, because even pushing the shutter release button will cause camera shake and blur the image.

If it's people you're shooting, they will move too much and you'll get blur. Use your flash, but bounce it off the ceiling by pointing it upwards (if you have that type of flash) Or use an opaque peice of plastic or a couple peices of paper over the flashbulb to diffuse the light to soften the effects of the harsh flash. Again try to use a tripod.

Answer 2

Yes, you can do a long exposure. You'd have to tell me what kind of camera you have for me to tell you how to do it, BUT, the main thing is that both the camera and the subject must be absolutelly still. Can't move at all. In fact you don't want to even touch the camera with your hands, just use the timer function on some cameras or a remote release.
I have taken photos at night, and with a long enough exposure it will look just like daylight. The light is always there, our eyes just can't see it, but in a camera, as long as the shutter is open, the light continues to accumulate on the fim or sensor.
The down side of long exposure (besides the fact that any movement will be blurred) is the fact that the photos will be quite grainy. This is caused by something called "noise"
If you're using film, you can use a higher speed film (like 1600 instead of 400 or whatever) also on a digital camera, you can use the highest possible ISO setting. This will make the sensor more sensitive to light.
The other thing that can be done is to bounce flash off a reflector (this is why photographers use umbrelas) This causes the rays of light to be reflected in more than one direction, and creates a pleasant soft light effect as opposed to on camera straight flash harsh light (because the light beam is straight from the flash tube)

Answer 3

In normal room lighting, you should be able to take photos using a shutter speed of 1/15 or 1/30. You really have to practice to hand hold a camera this slow, a wideangle lens will help reduce blur. Below 1/15 sec, most color films go into mild or even severe reciprocity failure. You will have to add extra time to the lightmeter reading to correct for this effect. Even with correction for time, the colors will start to shift giving the picture an unusual tint. You might be able to boost the light in the room temporarily by putting larger bulbs in the fixtures, or bringing in some additional lighting fixtures.

Flash light is balanced to work with regular daylight film. Tungsten or fluorescent fixtures will give a color shift. Tungsten film is available to compsentate for the color from normal lamps. An alternative is to use a Wratten blue filter with normal lamps, however the filter factor will reduce the light and be careful not to use a shutter speed that will cause reciprocity failure. You can correct for mild color shifts using a computer editor if you chose, just be aware of the problem.

Answer 4

You can take 1600 film, which should be available somewhere, and push it to 3200 if your camera will do that. By pushing it, you have to set your film speed to 3200 and then when you take it to be processed at a Professional Photo Processing place, tell them to push process it at 3200.

I think you will have to tripod your camera, put the speed of the shutter on B, and use a bulb, which is what B means, and expose it for 4 or five minutes or so. Test with several lengths of time. Shutter should be wide open

Answer 5

Setting iso to 1600 or more, increasing to max aperture (better if you have fast lens with a 1.8 aperture, remember that the lower the number the higher the aperture and the more light it enters) and decreasing shutter speed to get as much external light as possible (it is important that you use a tripod then) but you need to have some light of course. You can't make miracles without light.

Answer 6

yes use a 35mm camera buy the 800 film speed and move the speed on your camera to the 30 second mark and have the aperture opened all the way.

Answer 7

you can try to hold the camera still and steady for a while so that the object is kinda burned into the lens. but if it is that dark the lens wont catch it.

Answer 8

possible? yes. but i doubt that you will be able to see anything on the picture:)

Answer 9

you need a long exposure. some cameras will not do this

Answer 10

No and you won't get good result.