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Night Photography Tyler Mostofizadeh

Artificial light from street post - I-Phone 12: f /0 - Auto
Blue Hour, taken 1 hour after sunset - I-Phone 12: f /0 - Auto
Long exposure, Movement from a car - I-Phone 12: f/0 - 3s
Long exposure, a tree at 9 PM - I-Phone 12: f/2 - 3s

Reflection: I enjoyed learning about night photography and the ideal exposure and shutter speed for each scenario. For my first photo, I wanted an artificial light photo of a stationary vehicle, so when I saw this motorcycle, I decreased my exposure because I had light shining from a street lamp, and it made the motorcycle easily visible. I really wanted to capture a blue hour photo of the beach for this project, so for my second photo, when I saw this post-sunset at Ocean Beach, I knew I had to take a photo of it for the assignment. I could have used more exposure for blue hour to see the beach and surroundings better, but when I took this I hadn't reviewed the lesson. My third photo I wanted to capture long exposure of a car moving to blur the movement, so I set my shutter speed to 3 seconds, and was able to achieve this. My last photo was the photo with the most exposure at f/2, and a shutter speed of 3 seconds, it almost looks like its day time in this photo, but it was actually 9 PM. I found it interesting how much an I-Phone could light up a photo at night, and I wanted to test it out with this one. My greatest challenge for this project was capturing movement of a car driving on the street. There wasn't much traffic on the road, so I had to wait, and I had to mess around with the settings a lot to get the photo to show movement, so it took a lot of trial and error before I got a photo that showed blurred movement. My greatest success for this project was my blue hour photo. It was after a great surf session at Ocean Beach earlier this week, and I thought I'd catch a quick photo of the blue hour sky before I left, I wish I added more exposure though. I learned a lot from this project about night photography and capturing the best photographs for a certain situation, and I hope to improve a lot in my night photography. My favorite kind of night photo are those that show blurred movement, as I love the way the lights spreads across the frame and I hope to take more of these in the future.

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