Shooting at night

For my unit four, I shot a lot my images at night. I had shot all my previous landscape during the day, so nigh time photography gave me challenged I had not face before. I knew I had to use a tri-pod, however after the first shoot, I brought a trigger to be able to take longer photos as my camera limited me to 30 seconds. Some of my exposures were up to 10 minutes, so I had to set my camera up to not take in a lot of light, otherwise sources like lampposts would be over blown. Although I didn’t carry on long exposures in my university work, I did with my personal photography, going to busy places to capture the red and white light traveling through the landscape.

I had experimented with long exposures a while ago, but never for school. I found all the images looked very similar, which was the main reason I moved away from in my unit four work. Once you get that perfect shot with cars going both ways, there’s not really anywhere else to go there. I constantly look at my work and think to myself “how can I make this better” and when the answer is a simple thing such as a lower angle, I lose connection with my own work.

edit two

edit three

IMG_6712