From the course: Street Photography: The City at Night
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Shooting subjects in low light with a mural background
From the course: Street Photography: The City at Night
Shooting subjects in low light with a mural background
- Okay, well, we're at the location with baby Hulk in the background and, you know, I've chosen this location for obvious reasons. Obviously, the work of the artist who did this, Ron English, I'm relying a lot on that. It's in public view, and of course, these kinds of public art projects are all around the city and why not take advantage of them when they're there? You know, this is a situation where, like a lot of the locations... Actually, all of the locations that I'm choosing, it looks better at night. You can see that, you know, there are some hot spots because it's lit, but the ambiance of this place at night, in my opinion, is much more interesting than it is during the day. There's a lot of action, as you can tell, going by here. I mean, aside from the cars, there's a million people going by. Occasionally, and more than a few times, people are stopping to look at this amazing mural, to get their photographs taken with it. (camera shutter clicking) So there were a couple of…
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Establishing the location for a low-light mural shot1m
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Shooting subjects in low light with a mural background3m 22s
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Shooting subjects at night with reflected light4m 29s
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Panning with a moving subject3m 43s
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Posing a subject in a good low-light street scene5m 23s
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Critiquing the urban low-light street shots8m 37s
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