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Still exploring the new world of shooting at night. It’s exciting, a whole new sets and vignettes to learn. The corner store with the one bulb, the spill over from a hallway. It’s crucially about where the light is or where the light will be and then about what’s being lit up. 195 photos in two stints (12pm to 4pm, and 7:30pm to 10pm).
- I was shooting at a far lower ISO800 for most of the shoot and the shutter speeds were acceptable. EV -2 to -4. It is very much about the variation of light. The part of the picture where there is light can be exposed with far less effort that what is around. Luckily this is the look that I want.
- My shooting method seems to be pretty good. In the dark I have far more time to get still, and even to repeatedly take shots if need be. There is an unhurried nature to the night that I hope will come through to the daytime shooting as well.
- Shot around Kishi market which isn’t far from home. With the night work, I’m not looking for people so much as I’m looking for light and interesting tableux and this can be found close. This is a welcome change as I don’t have to sit in traffic for 3 to 4 hours everyday. However, I do plan on taking a night bus trip through the city just to see what the rest of the city looks like in the dark.
- The night offers far less actual opportunities and so you have to really stick around the ones you find and spend time exploring it through repeated shots and so on.
- I was initially a little disappointed to be coming back with pictures of things and light rather than of people. Somehow I considered these dead, or lacking tension. But that isn’t the case. The good ones (the 1 out of the usual 100) is good. Does resonate emotionally.
- Tried various points at an intersection trying to find a spot where I could be close to the middle of the traffic and well positioned to catch the headlights of the cars illuminating things. The results are mostly rickshaws which get tiring after awhile.
- The dark needs a different way of seeing to when it is light. It seems to be far more like painting, where you have to build the scene. Find the light, find what it illuminates and then darken everything around it. In the daytime, you frame what’s there and worry about light a little, but not as much.
- Need to be a little more careful as traffic can’t really see you as easily in the dark. Some close misses but not as bad as I thought it would be.
- I have a sore throat that is fucking annoying. But I had to go to work. My uncle is flying in from Vienna tomorrow and I won’t get the chance to shoot very much.
- For some reason I’m very attracted shooting meat at night. It just looks beautiful. Search me.
Why tomorrow will be better
- If I get the chance to shoot tomorrow, I will walk to Shamoli and try to get more of the dark on the edges light in the centre photos that have been coming out so well.
- Technically, ISO800 is producing the quality I want, need to be even more stable when the shot’s being taken and keep an eye on what the shutter speeds are for each shot.
- I need to balance the night work with a bit of day work as well as the headshot set isn’t done yet.
Posted 2 years ago
