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Establishing the location for a low-light mural shot

Establishing the location for a low-light mural shot

From the course: Street Photography: The City at Night

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Establishing the location for a low-light mural shot

- Hey everybody, well there's a million great places to shoot here in New York City but I've chosen this spot here at the Bowery and Houston, because there's a mural that I wanted to photograph. It's this baby Hulk and it's very picturesque and I think it would be a good start, as well, just, you know, steps away, there's all kinds of other opportunities for us to shoot. (car honking loudly) I'm traveling pretty light, I decided to bring two cameras, I've got, it's New York City, I've got two cameras, I've got fast lens on them because this is, this is commando, handheld, no tripod photography, I mean, otherwise, so I'm going to have a fast enough shutter speed to freeze the action. I'll be shooting fairly wide open. Now normally, in a lot of the night scenes, or the night shooting that I'll do, I go one camera, one lens, you know, it's best to keep a low profile at night but New York's a pretty safe place and I've got the Lynda crew here to protect me so I'm not too worried about…

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