Night

Date: 11/17/2011

Camera: Canon Powershot 1000IS

F Stop: 2.7

ISO: 250

Shutter Speed: 1/40

Tripod: No

Date: 11/29/2011

Camera: Canon Powershot 1000IS

F Stop: 2.7

ISO: 250

Shutter Speed: 1/8

Tripod: No

These two photos were approached and shot in different ways. The first picture was taken indoors. My goal with this picture was to shoot using candle light. I used the bottles seen in the pictures as props. It took me a while to find a good spot in my house where I could shoot without a distracting background; I eventually settled on this location and positioned the bottles in such a way that they made dramatic shadows when paired with the candlelight. I particularly liked how the candlelight only lit up the objects that I was shooting.

The second picture was shot outdoors, my favorite thing about how this picture turned out is the texture of the tree. The light from the floodlight created a dramatic texture of the trunk and also captured the texture of the bush. Shooting outside was a lot more difficult particularly due to my “point- and –shoot” style camera.  After taking many pictures at night of lights that were farther away it became evident my camera does not have the capability to take a clear shot of distant lights. This made me change tactics and I utilized the floodlight to get a close up.