From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light

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Street shooting

Street shooting

From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light

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Street shooting

Shooting in the city at night is not that much different than shooting in the city during the daytime. Just as in the day, you are going to wander around and you are going to look for good light, and when you find good light, you are going to work it. You are going to try to find the subject within it somewhere. You are going experiment in different ways and see what you can make out of that scenario. Now the big difference is that during the day, of course, your light is predominately coming from overhead and it's casting a very particular kind of shadows and illuminating things in a very particular kind of way. Maybe it's also reflecting off of buildings and things and creating some indirect light that's very nice, but it's still all coming over from overhead. At nighttime, your lights coming from lots of different places and it's lots of different colors. You have got light a bit above you, but you also got light coming directly from the side. It's all different colors. It's…

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