As the group at Harold Davis’ Night photography workshop eagerly waited for it to get darker, Jennifer and I scouted around for a few more fun shots to take. I love the menacing paint job on this shark boat, though somehow the shark in the reflection even seems a bit more menacing.
For a few very brief moments the a cluster of pink clouds formed allowing me to take this.
Yet very soon after it was quite dark, allowing me to shoot this almost silhouette of a bridge.
This was one of the last shoots I took before our night lecture, it was taken through the gaps in a fence. This town looks so peaceful as it sits right over the water.
Harold really encouraged us to explore different angles, views, and colors in the night and all around us. With just changing my shutter speed and taking quite long exposures with a tripod, I was able to capture a lot of different colors in the buildings and sky.
Although Harold has written several books, one entitled Creative Night Photography, his advice to us was very simple and usable right away. With some basic guidelines: f11, shutter speed 20 seconds or more (the length increased as the night wore on), ISO 100 with noise reduction on, I was really proud of the results I and my fellow photographers got. I would have though the workshop was a great learning experience had that been all, yet Harold had a few quite unique ideas left.
He wanted us to get some unusual shots with moving lights. First in our don’t do this at home activity, we had one of the photographers drive his car in front of us several times while really giving the brakes and the tires a workout. In the shot on the left he came by a few more times, than the one on the right. Harold said that though you could see camera shake in them (even on a tripod it was hard to keep the camera steady for 2.5 minutes..in part due to laughing at the crazy driving), yet the light streaks came up quite clear and it looked pretty cool regardless.
Ever the industrious bunch, one of the photographers mentioned he had neon sticks in his car. So we set people up with two sticks each (there was a red, blue, green and white one) to dance around and take more long exposure photos. My best was the one at 1 and a half minutes, below, again some camera shake in part due to laughing (next time I’ll have to get a cable release and let it hold it down). At the end I even took part in the dancing. This is probably one of my favorite shots from the day.
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