Long Exposure - Shooting Star

I was experimenting a few weeks ago and headed out one evening just as the sun was setting to do some long exposure shots. Both of the pictures below were shot at f/11 with the top one at about two minutes and the bottom one at roughly three minutes. I did it by using bulb mode in manual for the shutter speed and then timed it with my watch. For both photos I switched to tungsten for the white balance to get a very blue shift in color but the top photo was then also color shifted in Photoshop for a different effect. If you look closely in the bottom photo you see I might have captured a shooting star or at least that's what the light trail looks like to me. A happy accident.

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.