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Exercise: Outdoors at Night

Posted in OCA Learning Log Part Four. Light by

The best place for this night time project is a city centre. They have plenty of brightly lit buildings and streets. The aim of this exercise is to explore the variety of lighting effects and colour in artificial light. A tripod and camera release might be useful for longer exposures, but not essential if you decide to take photographs with high ISO settings.

Try to include in your shooting, the following:

  • A floodlit building, look for a viewpoint from where the lights themselves are hidden
  • A brightly lit store front
  • A large interior with many people, such as a shopping centre. Do not use a tripod for this image.
  • A raised view looking along a busy road, such as from a pedestrian overpass. The idea is to catch the headlights and tail lights of traffic as streaks. The longer the exposure time, the more dramatic the effect will be. .

 

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