For this picture gallery my theme was to produce some photos that capture movement and light at night. I have also done some specific editing techniques to give all the photos a similar aesthetic. By boosting vibrancy, saturation and contrast they all appear to have a surreal, almost sci-fi feel to them. Most of the images utilize a slow shutter speed. This helps to show the objects movement within the frame.

 

I will now discus more closely two of my images.

 

Water Droplets On Window –

 

 

 

 

 

For this image I used the Canon EOS 650D. I had the EF – S18- 135mm lens.

Shooting at night comes with all its own problems including have enough light to expose the lens correctly. By upping my ISO to 3200 I was able to take enough light into the camera to produce good images. This image also uses a fairly slow shutter of 1/20 which is slow enough to pick up the cars movement. It also uses an f/5.6 which gives a reasonably small range of focus. I didn’t want a Higher F number because this would close my aperture which would make the image darker. This is a battle you have when taking photos at night. As you can see the water droplets remain in focus whilst the outside world moves past in a blur. The lights from the outside world reflect on droplets creating a highlighting effect.

 

Bus At Light Speed –

 

For this image I used the same camera, lens and ISO however it uses a wider aperture of f/3.5 that is the smallest focal length I could use. This picture also uses a slower shutter speed to capture more movement. From the picture you cant see where the bus starts and ends. Saturating the colours helped to bring out the yellow in the bus making more recognisable. This sci-fi theme came from this photo and its comparability to Star Trek and their use of FX when the ship moves at light speed.