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Tried my phone's night mode on a blurry blob in my yard, got a raccoon and a lesson about tripods
Last Tuesday I saw a weird gray shape on my fence in Nashville and snapped it with night mode, which stacked 8 shots and turned the blob into a pixelated mess with three glowing eyes. Turns out the eyes were just the neighbor's cat sitting behind a trash can lid, and the stacking smeared both animals together because my hands were shaking. So how do you all spot a real subject in a stacked low light shot versus two things blending into one?
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jade27127d ago
Stacking will always smear anything that moves between frames, so the trick is to check the edges of your subject after the shot. A single animal has one clear outline, but if you see two overlapping shapes or doubled legs, that's two things getting mashed together. The three glowing eyes thing is a dead giveaway too, since real eyes don't multiply. Next time just brace your phone on the fence or a chair and shoot one frame instead of eight.
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