Georgetown At Night #1

I went out last night a little before 11pm and took some night pictures of Georgetown.  I plan to post one a day for the next week. Here is a photo on the Georgetown College campus.   The is the Anna Ashcraft Ensor Learning Resource Center.  A building like this was just called a library when I was going to school.

 Taking photos at night has unique challenges that you don’t have with normal daylight photography. I think night photography makes you acutely aware of lighting and how lighting affects your pictures.  I believe because I am leaning how to do night photography, it will certainly improve my natural light and flash photography as well.

Many of my night photos are exposed over several minutes.  This one was a 2 second exposure.  When I am doing long exposures it gives me time to just think about the pictures I am taking. It lets me have time to predict what I think the photo will look like.  My predictions are still not as accurate as I like — but they are getting there.