This photo is taken using S mode 30sec with tripod.stock len 1870.Sony @350.
From the photo there a patch of hexgan light believe is the lampole above the camera.
Anyway I can prevent this from happening ;)

use lens hood to block unwanted side lightning ;)

Hi Astro75,

Wonder hv u attended Julian's SDW Fundamental Handling class?

There's nothing wrong with this picture... however, as Jeff suggested, use the lens hood to block out stray light.
For certain night shoots, try to do it in the period when the sky is turning from bright to deep blue & to dark blue.. which you can still see the sky light/clouds and the city lights are already on. your pix will look more interesting!

Don't seem like it to me but were you shooting at the 18mm end (wide angle) with this photo?? My overall feel is that the picture looks quite dark as you don't see lights from the main subject and all the other buildings at the background...

Good work & keep on shooting!!!

Understand that SDW has a Night Photography class as well, which you might consider attending to gain more insights on how to maximize the performance of your A350 in such conditions !

Keep shooting my friend :)

Firstly thanks for all the advice.
actually I using the len hood which is the stock package :D
So I believe need to get a better bigger len hood.

I will take a few more round of practise first before attending the course for better knowledge :P

hihi,

A bigger lens hood would not help, as each lens has its own specially designed lens hood to go along with it. In fact looking at the picture, it could be due to any of the following two possibilities:

1. The lens surface is slightly "dirty", causing light diffraction. You can use a clean optical cloth, together with blowing some mist onto it, to clean the lens.

or

2. The angle where the tripod/camera was set up. The lens hood will only block out stray lighting from the sides of the lens, but if the light source is say, slightly to the 2 or 10 o'clock position to the lens, such an issue might occur.

I know it might sound a bit too technical but do give the above a try and you should be able to eliminate that "hexagon" off your picture :)

JW

There's a problem... Stand up and look at the photo there's a hexagon patch as pointed out by Astro... :o