Night Time Photography Lighting Effects

Video Transcript

"My name is Anthony Maddaloni and I'm going to be talking about nighttime photography lighting effects. Now, nighttime photography can be very interesting with the skylines and the cities, and one thing that I used to like to do is that I would go over and I'd get on top of a high building and I'd be photographing a certain city. And one thing about nighttime photography is it's low light, so the shutter speed that I was using might be very slow. So a string of cars moving along side the highway can actually look just like one, big blur of light coming along. Now that's one effect of nighttime photography that you can utilize to your advantage to make an extremely interesting picture. By leaving the shutter open, in any kind of moving light, is really just going to capture onto your image like in a certain way. Neon often does that too. When I photograph sometimes in bars or in restaurants, if I'm photographing, you'll actually see the blur of the neon behind my subjects. And I always like to use that effect also. One thing about nighttime photography too, that I always think is a really fun thing to play with sometimes, is to turn the lights off in a room, and eave your shutter open on your camera. And you can maybe have a friend or whoever you're taking pictures of actually trace the outline of themselves with a small pen light. And then if you close the shutter, you'll actually see the image of that person on your camera. That's a really fun trick to play with digital cameras with kids. I like to explain photography like that to people sometimes. And those are some interesting nighttime effects that you can use with photography."