Somewhere between supervising “go to bed” and getting up at 0-dark-thirty every morning, I almost never shoot at night. (Plus, creeping around outside until nearly midnight makes me a saggy-eyed hag the next day. Guess how I know…)
As a result, I’m not particularly skilled with night photography. Last night, though, we were fogged in so thoroughly, I couldn’t resist trying.
The composition requirements change radically in this environment — deceptively so, since human eyes compensate dramatically in low-light conditions. Furthermore, the usual “tricks” for non-uniform light (fill flash, for instance, or multiple exposures) would completely defeat the purpose.
These were both long exposures — 30 seconds or so — and while I think they’re “okay”, they don’t come close to capturing what I saw.
I clearly need to work on this… because it’s really a different world out there in the dark.
I simply do not have the words to describe my feelings when I first saw that second photo, Polimom … “glorious” “magnificent” … none of the adjectives I could immediately come up with even begin to describe how wonderful that photograph is!
You really should make plans to attend PhotoCampHouston, down at the Houston Technology Center on Jan 24. http://barcamp.org/PhotoCampHouston
~EdT.