Last week our kids were on spring break so we decided to take a quick, overnight trip to Chicago. We were fortunate enough to get a hotel through Hotwire that was across from Water Tower Place and right on Michigan Avenue. I’ve always wanted to play around with night photography, but our little town doesn’t really lend itself to great nighttime, street shots, however, Chicago is the perfect place to play around!
It probably would’ve been better to actually be down by the street, but I’m still pretty pleased with how these came out from our hotel window on the 8th floor.
I placed my camera with my 24-70mm lens (on an upside down plastic trash can for stability) right next to the window. Because I wanted to catch the movement of the traffic, I lowered the shutter speed and used the timer on the camera so once I pressed the shutter, I didn’t have to touch the camera again until after the picture was taken.
I took quite a few as the sun went down, but these two are my favorites…
ISO 200 … shutter speed – 0.50 sec. … f/2.8 … 24mm
ISO 640 … shutter speed – 1/10 sec … f/2.8 … 24mm
It was a lot of fun to try something new and I can’t wait to be able to try night/street/motion photography again.
[linking up for Sweet Shot Tuesday]
Gorgeous shots.
ReplyDeleteI think the top shot is really great, love how you have captured the movement on the street.
ReplyDeleteMollyxxx
Well done!!!!
ReplyDeleteWow, the light in the first photo is so nice. What a fun experiment. I'd like to try this sometime.
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