Yesterday Paul and I went to South Hill Park, for a workshop in twilight and low light photography.
While it was still light, we went for a walk around the lake and staked out a good spot to take photos of the sunset. We then set the cameras to Manual (scary!) and started playing around with the settings to see what would happen.
Once it had gone completely dark, we played around with artificial light. This is Paul, waving an LED torch around (mostly) in front of the camera. We also played with candles, sparklers, glow sticks and very long exposures.
You can see the rest of my photos on Flickr.
This is an extremely edited selection – most of the pictures I took by the lake were identical, just changing one setting each time until I’d found the best one.
I don’t think I’m going to take up photographing sunsets or waving torches around any time soon, but I do feel as though I understand my camera a little bit better than I did before. We’re going on holiday in November, when it will be dark for quite a lot of the time, so hopefully I now have enough knowledge to be able to take better photos while we’re away.
some very nifty results indeed – and a grand skill set to have 😀