Part 4 - Exercise 9

Outdoors at night

I cheated a bit for this exercise by using a combination of new photos and ones picked from previous photos I've taken which I think fitted the brief. I felt comfortable doing this because I've done a reasonable amount of night photography previously.

The above photograph was taken a couple of months ago from the window of a hotel I was staying in in New York. It comprises many seperate points of artificial light. I deliberately took it before the evening light had faded completely.

Here the comparatively warm colours of the shopfronts contrasts with the rich blue of the night light.

The artificial light is more subtle here and the interesting shapes of the buildings are more silhouetted against the night sky.

The light here is the centrepiece of the photo, it casts interesting shadows in all directions around it.

The lights here are from LED TV screens. The movement resulting from slow shutter speed creates a slightly abstract quality which works well with hustle and bustle of the scene. This is 1/30 second - this still required 800 iso.

The above 3 photos all capture the stream of movement from moving lights by using slow shutter speeds. This creates some very interesting (and sometime surprising), shapes. They're 3, 8 and 30 seconds respectively.

The light in this scene was very interesting. The buildings in the background have a curiously flourescent green glow about them, but the foreground scene was lit by a couple of very powerful tungsten (not sure?) lights - one directly behind me and one just to left of centre and pointing right at me - I had to stand in front of it to block it with my coat and then move my position so that I blurred (over the course of the 30
second exposure) to the point where I could barely be seen.

This is another older shot which contained multiple lights. I converted to B&W to remove the varying colours and emphasise the tones that the lights created.

Again, a lot of different type of lights are in the above photograph. The street part of the photograph is almost flat because the multitude of lights nearly eradicates all shadows.