Night Photography at Granville Island

Last night our photography classes from Vancouver Photo Workshop gathered at Granville Island for some night photography. We practiced our long exposures, flash photography and proper white balancing. We also dabbled a bit with some "painting with light" and that yielded some very interesting results. I quite enjoyed tonight's outing and I know that I'll be doing a lot more night photography in the future and will try to throw in some creative twists to it all. Here are some shots from that night.

Shots from around Granville Island

I went down to Granville Island and took a few shots late in the afternoon with not much available light. For the most part I was shooting in full manual mode but I also played a bit with some camera settings to achieve the purplish sky and color saturation in a few of the photos. Took some long exposure shots too. Still learning and making mistakes along the way but now I can look at the pictures and determine why certain ones didn't turn out when I review them and look at the settings that were used. It's usually that I was hand holding a shot with the shutter speed too slow or my aperture was opened up too much and I end up losing a lot of details that I would have wanted. Here are a few shots from that outing.