The night photography assignments were fun and had me thinking creatively more than other units. It was fun to experiment with different techniques discussed in the modules. I had never taken photos with long exposures before, and it was fun to try different settings to see the outcomes. All of my photos ended up with a long exposure to some degree. My longest exposure photo is the photo of the trees and the stars, coming in at 30 seconds. That exposure was the max for my camera before it switched to "bulb". My shortest exposure was 2 seconds -- the photo of our dog Nana in front of our house. I was able to decrease the exposure time from nights inside the house and porch/garage lights outside the house. I had two biggest challenges. The first was getting photos to be in focus. I had a tripod, which made things a lot easier, but it was also hard to find the correct focusing in very low light conditions. There was a lot of trial and error. The second challenge was a surprise when it came to editing my photos. With these long exposures, my photos were all covered in identical bright red and blue spots. Some googling led to learning that these are "hot pixels". I'm not sure why they are showing up only on these long exposure photos, but, with some additional googling, I figured out how to remove most of them in RawTherapee. My biggest success was trying out new techniques. I had a lot of fun trying light painting. I think there is still a lot of room to improve with my final product, but I would not have thought to try this without learning more about it in the modules this past week.