This past weekend was the last photo shoot of Digital Photography 1, so I decided I would do the open assignment. For my open assignment, I wanted to try out night photography because it fascinates me. From downtown settings to the night sky there is so much diversity of composition, lighting, effects, and motion! Unfortunately, I was unable to convince the weather to permit for night sky photography, so I stuck with city landscapes. In this photo shoot I learned so much. First of all, night photography is really hard with so much diversity in lighting it is hard to capture it all properly. I learned that too many bright light sources can be very distracting. For example, the headlights of incoming traffic is too overwhelming in these photos. Another example of overwhelming brightness was when I had the white sidewalk in my foreground. Another thing I found was the best lines of light (car taillights/headlights) came from shutter speeds of 5-6 seconds (too much below and the lines stop in the middle of your photo, too much above and your photo becomes over exposed). One of the techniques I tried in this photo shoot was getting a panorama of the city landscape. When I was doing this however, there was so many cars driving by (motion) even at a quick shutter speed the same cars at different positions/on top of each other were off were in the panorama. Finally, I created the starburst/bokeh effect in the street lights. I did this by closing the aperture down in the 20's. I had a really fun time playing with the composition elements of night photography and the lighting. I especially liked incorporating lines to draw viewer's eyes! Shutter speed: 5 seconds (I used a tripod)
Aperture: f/stop 25 ISO: 800 The editing I did in this photo was I increased the contrast (to really separate the dark areas and bright areas). I also brought up the vibrance, just enough to make the reds and greens pop. In addition, I used the healing brush to get rid of some of the light spots o the photo. Finally, I increased the clarity a little bit to make the photo a little more edgy in some places.
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