Night Photography Assignment

[pest22o]

Here's some shots for a night assignment i had to do for class this week. I'll post some big and small ones so you can see wicch ones are better.

 

[pest22o]

What do you guys think? when you shoot night shots do you guys use flash?

For the first shot I really want to add some car lights driving by her (in Photoshop), but I don't know how to do that yet.

 

[alwayslearning]

Some of those are pretty interesting. I like the last one with the tail light. I never use a flash at night, just a tripod and patience.

It's still dark here in NW Ohio but we got an incredibly beautiful snowfall over night and in fact is still snowing quite a bit. In a few minutes I'm going out for some shots.

Larry

 

[pest22o]

Good luck with those shots.

 

[Moojangles]

i use a flash or two for my night shots. For this one it was a 6 second exposure at F22 with a flash at 1/4 power coming from behind me on my left.

It is for an exhibition on Tattoos.

 

[pest22o]

I love it! how do you still get the background exposed if you use flash?

 

[egproductions]

He mentioned that he used a 6 second exposure and the flash just as a fill. The flash will stop anything it hits at 1/200th of a second (or whatever the flash speed is) but after that the shutter can remain open to expose for things that the flash has not yet hit.

 

[alwayslearning]

I didn't even come close. By the time I could get out, it was too light.

I took these anyway ... http://www.clearpointpictures.com/page2

That is a very nice shot moojangles.

Larry

 

[pest22o]

I'm not sure how to use the flash on my camera to much, I guess I better start some learning.

 

[Moojangles]

thanks Larry, and ya EGproductions got it when he said the long exposure lets you still get the effect of a night shot but the flash will illuminate objects in the foreground (or wherever the flash is) and help freeze them if they are moving. In this case though i had the model stay still for the duration as i didn't want any ghosting around her.

I use off-camera wireless flashes, you won't get quite the same effect with an on-camera flash whether big or small for more info read www.strobist.blogspot.com there is so much info there it can be mind boggling so i suggest you check out Lighting 101 to start with.

hope that helps