Night Photography by Grace Turner

IPhone 15 Pro Max
IPhone 15 Pro Max
IPhone 15 Pro Max
IPhone 15 Pro Max

My first photo in this assignment is the one that I decided to use for movement. I took this photo at Corona Del Mar State Beach when me and my friends were having a bonfire. I really edited this photo so I lower the exposure and up the saturation to make the photo stand out and pop more. I took so many pictures of this fire that my phone actually ended up overheating and shutting off, which made me a little nervous. my next photo is a couple streets down from my house where I use artificial light but due to how long I had the exposure on my phone you could really see how cloudy and that the sky was actually pretty bright. I took out about 11:30 at night when me and my roommates went for a nightly stroll because it was really nice outside. I took this photo when I was home for Thanksgiving break. You can definitely see a lot more stars in Northern California, which is something that I love just due to where I currently live. There’s a lot of light pollution up to exposure to capture all these stars and actually see that there is some kind of green lighting behind the trees, which I don’t know why but it’s just what the phone caught with the exposure and lastly my last photo is on Balboa Island, which is just about a 15 minute drive from my house, everyone’s in full swing for Christmas already. I really liked this photo because of the reflection that you can see on all the cars of the hanging lights and I just felt like the contrast for this photo was pretty good for an iPhone. My favorite part about this project was really just kind of getting outside more at night which is something I don’t normally do and my least favorite part that I feel like I struggled with was making sure that my photos were not blurry just due to not having a tripod or anything.