Friday 28 March 2014

Fun in the dark

Unfortunately, this post is not as seedy as the title makes out!!!

Have nothing to do at 11 O'Clock at night? go out and take photos! At least that is what me and my buddies did. We cycled over to the multi-storey car park in Loughborough and started to shoot photos of things about! Having never really shot before in the dark, it was a huge learning curve, but playing with exposures, shutter speeds and apertures it started to come together. It was especially good because I got to use my new tripod and remote shutter!

After we had taken photos of the only good thing we could actually see (the tower below), we decided to ride the bikes with the lights on whilst using a fairly long shutter speed. As you can see from the photos we played around with different colours and flashing lights and different patterns to try and produce loads of different effects.
Eventually we moved onto the basketball court near to home which was so dark I had to use a torch to set up my equipment, however in the photos you would have no idea as the street lights in the distance bring everything to life.
Shooting at night is now going to be a new challenge of mine, as I love the way things can be seen in photos when in reality things were very dark or pitch black!







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  1. Very cool! I like the second to last one of the basketball court. Looks like you had fun.

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    1. thanks! it was really interesting exploring all of the different ways to shoot in the dark!

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  2. SO COOL! Shooting at night is so much fun and really challenges you to learn your camera. What did you use for the light streak in the basketball court shots? I may have to drag my husband out to get some similar shots in the near future. Thank you for the inspiration!

    Thanks for linking up:)

    Cheers,
    Alyson

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    1. Thanks! We just used the bike lights again, I got them to ride in circles whilst I took the shot! Could use a torch of anything though, just get them to move!

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  3. This sounds like so much fun! I wish I had photographer friends locally :(
    Love all of these, but the second to last one is incredible with all those light streaks. So well done!

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    1. Yeah a couple of my friends at uni are interested in photography so when I'm down there I get them to help, and whilst I'm at home my girlfriend loves it too so I'm really lucky to have people willing to help out! Yeah it was pretty funny seeing what we could do!

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  4. If we're not having fun while taking your pictures, what else do we do it for? What a great experiment!

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    1. That's so true! I do always have fun taking photos, it's never a chore!

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