Night Photography

Image by Trevor Paglen


Assignment 1
Painting with Light: Night Photography:
With inspiration from Fourth of July Special: Paint Your Photos with Sparklers! See blog link
Shoot 100 images. Large JPEG is OK. You will edit to your best 4 images.

For the Assignment
DSLR camera or point-and-shoot camera
Flashlight
Tripod
Friends or Objects (1 or more)
Off-camera flash (optional)


Create beautiful and provocative long exposures using the B setting. Use an alternative light source to add information to your exposure. This is an experimental assignment so take your time. Making mistakes is the best way to learn. Do not delete any of your images. Recognition will be given for original ideas.

• Drawing, outlining, highlighting
• Play with your settings from F-stop to ISO.
• Try glow sticks or sparklers.
• Writing letters in the air will result in backwards words, but this can be fixed by simply flipping the image horizontally. Having your subjects wear black so they disappear into the scene.
Suggestion from photojojo.com

“If you are planning to use flash, you’ll want to keep your shutter speed shorter at about 8 seconds. If you are using the built-in flash on your camera, set it to “rear flash.” This means your flash will pop at the end of the exposure instead of the beginning.
Let your friend know to be ready at the end of 8 seconds, so that they can hit their pose!
If you are using an off-camera flash you won’t need to set “rear flash” because you’ll be manually firing it. Again, give your friend a heads up when you do!”

Images Shot by: 1/31/11