After dark you will find many shops completely blacked out but those which are lit or partially lit offer unique opportunities to photograph empty places.
Without people around to question what you are doing you can spend the time you need to do to find great subjects to capture. Look for different colours of light and repeated objects – here the local laundromat provides a moody subject which is only enhanced by the grain from the high ISO setting used.
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In busy cities and even in country towns you will find that the activity at night differs from that during the day.
Tankers deliver fuel, people clean areas that aren’t cleaned during the day and they are all great subjects to shoot.
Take the time to search out unusual activities to capture them. Here a cleaner was throwing up a cloud of steam and water and, captured in the night lights of the shops it made for an interesting shot.
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If you’re shooting after sundown or if you are up early in the morning before the sun is up look for drop dead gorgeous skies.
If you can capture the last rays of a dying sun or the first rays in the early morning you’ll get great color and wonderful silhouetting of anything between you and what light there is. Look for interesting trees, buildings and other features to capture as silhouettes.
Use a slow shutter speed, wide aperture or a high ISO (or all three) and be ready to capture the hues as they change from minute to minute across the horizon.
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I’ve just come back from Photoshop World in Las Vegas. My head hurts so bad with things I’ve learned.
One fun thing that happened amongst everything else is that I got interviewed by Dave Cross’ daughter and the clip was used in the conference closing video – second time it’s happened to me – must be the red hair!
So, it’s now up on YouTube and here’s the link (I’m the red head – duh! 19 seconds into the video) how cool is that?
I will be posting some tips and tricks I’ve learned in my Photoshop blog real soon.
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There has been some discussion on the forums of DPReview.com about opinions written by someone who calls themselves “Blue Water”. They purport to be me.
Just to clarify the situation, I am not Blue Water. Until today I didn’t know DPReveiw.com even existed and I had never posted there. The opinions and comments of Blue Water are not mine.
Helen Bradley (the real one!)
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