Night Shot Against Brick Wall

<p>I would like some help to achieve this shot,please<br>

What I would like to do is take and night shot with a friend standing against a brick wall that has an outdoor light above her(yellow) on the wall.<br>

I would prefer not to use a flash I want it to stay with the yellow lighting that there is.Is that possible<br>

I have the Rebel XSi with 50mm 1.8, 18-55mmIS , 55-250mmIS and I also have a tripod.<br>

What would you suggest?<br>

Thank You!</p>

<p>Tripod will help, you'll need to bump up the ISO on your camera quite a bit. The 50mm f1.8 should do fine.</p>

<p>Not knowing how bright that light is, I'd start with ISO 800, F2.8 in aperture priority mode and see what shutter speed it yields. Even with the tripod, you'd want to stay around 1/60 or faster to minimize subject movement.</p>

...and set the right colour balance too! Have fun!

<p>Super Thanks!</p>

<p>Take a large reflector to bounce the light from above her into her face otherwise there will be pretty grim shadows on it.</p>

<p>The real question is whether the light is bright enough that you can use a fast enough shutter speed to freeze any inadvertent motion by your friend. If you have to bump up the ISO a lot, you can clean up noise later.</p>

<p>I would shoot RAW. The odds are that the color cast will not be what you want no matter how you set the white balance. E.g., setting for tungsten will remove some of the yellow cast that you want. If you shoot raw, it is trivial to adjust the white balance later.</p>

<p>It would make sense at this point to take a shot or two.</p>

<p>Bill P.</p>

<p>The "yellow light" might be a sodium vapor lamp. If it is, it will likely be almost impossible to get a good color balance. Do some test shots ahead of time.</p>

<p>Tom M</p>

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<p ><a href="/photodb/user?user_id=4714311"><em>Tom Mann</em></a><em> </em><a href="/member-status-icons"><em><img title="Frequent poster" src="http://static.photo.net/v3graphics/member-status-icons/1roll.gif" alt="" /></em></a><em>, Nov 13, 2009; 08:22 p.m.</em><br>

<em>The "yellow light" might be a sodium vapor lamp. If it is, it will likely be almost impossible to get a good color balance. Do some test shots ahead of time.</em></p>

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<p>If the lights are yellow, then that's what the photo should reveal.<br>

That's the color of the scene.<br>

Not very flattering, but that's the truth.</p>

<p>Bill P.</p>

<p>Great thanks,<br>

Its a nice day today I'm hoping she'll be free and we can play with this tonight.<br>

If not, I'll just grab my son,lol</p>