Exercise: Outdoors at night

For this exercise, i had to take a series of photographs outside at night making use of brightly lit buildings and streets to explore the effects and colour of artificial light.

I had to try and include; a floodlit building, a brightly lit store front, a large interior such as a shopping centre and a raised view of a busy road.

I ventured out into the night with my camera and tripod, for longer exposures due to the lack of light, and here is what i captured;

A brightly lit store front in the dark. The lighting from within the shop is very white in comparison to the lighting outside into the distance of the left corner which is quite orange.

An unusual colour of lighting used at night, purple. It looked very beautiful and created a nice effect/ atmosphere. It turned everything underneath it purple. and didn't appear to give off a great deal of light. It is a nice contrast however, to the green tree to the left of the frame.

Yellow lighting bursting out of doors/ windows on a dark street. I felt a bit awkward taking this kind of photograph outside of a building i was quite unfamiliar with. I felt like a bit of a stalker and so took one photograph and quickly left.

Light trails from cars on a road, I took this one facing a roundabout  from on top of a bridge, hoping the roundabout would cause some more unusual shaped trails, something a bit different from the average straight road.

I found quite a dingy, eerier looking alley way. I over exposed this photograph by a couple of f-stops, as i wanted the alley alley itself to be quite dark with the small burst of blueish light in the background to stand out, making it look creepier and adding more depth to the alley. I kept the outside of the alley in the frame slightly, as i wanted the comparison between the orange created from the street light, and the white/ blueish light in the alley.

A lit up cathedral at dusk. I love this photograph, as the sky is quite a strong, bright shade of blue whilst the cathedral is bright orange, a contrasting colour. Created by the lights around the building. The two contrasting colours again reflected in the river.

A hotel captured from a sky walk. The metal fencing makes it feel quite busy and from within an inner city, the high buildings add to this creating a sense of standing in the hustle and bustle, which was not the case at all. The burst of bright lights against the dark sky, and how perfectly the high rise building are lit up and to the big city vibe.

A fire station at night, the lights from with seem to get brighter and whiter as you move to the right of the frame, whilst the lighting outside seems to get more orange as you move to the right of the frame. The angle the photograph is taken from, and the right being more lit up than the left, adds a greater sense of distance from each end in the photograph.

The inside of a shop, captured from behind silhouetted shutters. The lighting in the shop again quite orange. I thought this photograph was a bit different, with all the silhouetted shapes and patterns against the shop lighting.

A lit up store front, with quite bright white lighting, probably the only store front i captured where the colours present look the same as they would in daylight.

This is an extremely eerie, ghostly looking photograph. A gated walk way with orange lighting in the very back, then extremely bright white lighting the front that almost looks as if it is glowing, trying to burst out from behind the gate. Orange light from the path i am standing on, reflected in the two posters on the front of the gate. I love the different lighting present here and the effects they have on the photograph. You almost expect to see a ghost walking by. It quite unusual.

More light trails on another road.

I wanted this photograph quite dark, with only the street lights creating small patches of light making this picture appear quite solitary and creepy. the lighting being quite far away also adds a greater sense of depth to the photograph.

Bright lights of all different colours on  buildings at night.

I revisited the bridge i previously took a photograph earlier and saw a lone person walking down and so decided to capture a picture when they reached the light. A lonely orange tinted figure. Quite eerie.