Sean Sullivan
About the Image(s)
I few of us took a night photography trip up to a local lake park and did some winter shoots a few weeks ago. It was cold, wet, and dark. Doing night photography in pitch blackness is difficult to say the least. Biggest challenge is focusing. Having a light source that is relative to the distance to your subject that you can use to set manual focus helps. Having a strong flashlight works sometimes if the subject matter is not too far off. Anyway, I ended up with this exposure shot at f2.8 for 25 seconds with 1600 ISO. I then did some extensive LR, Photoshop and Topaz work and ended up with the final image. At first I had the entire image in very sharp focus but after a while I realized that I wanted to bench to be the subject and blurred the trees. I think this made is a stronger image with more depth. I hope everyone enjoys it. Have a great holiday season.