Houston Night Photography

[Patti Edens]

I recently took an on-line Night Photography course and spent a lot of sleepless nights trying to complete my assignments. Had a lot of fun and learned a lot.

The Metro Train lights



Buffalo Bayou and partial skyline



Car head and tail light trails



This one was at Brazos Bend State Park (40 Acre Lake) - almost Houston. Painted the pier with a flashlight and red filter.

Looking at the preview, they all look a bit too dark. I probably need to check my monitor cal...

[rab3rd]

Great shots, I like the train shot and hey look, theres something you never see. A broke down car on Houston freeways. LOL

[Stargazer77517]

Patti These are cool. Love the first and last. Ive been wanting to try something like that with the pier, think you might have motivated me. Can you share the camera settings for the last one?
Thanks Fred

[DigitalScape]

Very well done, Patti - I also like the first and last images the best.

[Jred]

Great Shots Patti...I love the first and last one too. Where was the last one taken?

John

[Patti Edens]

Originally Posted by Jred

Great Shots Patti...I love the first and last one too. Where was the last one taken?

John

John, Thank you. That was at 40 acre lake at Brazos Bend State Park.

[TxPhotoShooter]

Good job Patti! Like the last one especially.

[Patti Edens]

Originally Posted by Stargazer77517

Patti These are cool. Love the first and last. Ive been wanting to try something like that with the pier, think you might have motivated me. Can you share the camera settings for the last one?
Thanks Fred

Thank you Fred. Here are the settings:

11mm (Promaster superwide 11 -18mm lens)
f5.6
20 second exposure time
ISO 320

I painted the pier with a Surefire flashilght that had a red lens for about 15 of the 20 seconds.

Just fyi, I never strip out the EXIF data so if you get KUSO EXIF viewer or Opanda or one of those you can right click my photos, scroll down to Open with Kuso or whatever and it will show you all the nitty gritty details. However, on startrails or composite photos, the info might be missing or misleading. It's in there for this one because it was only one shot.

Originally Posted by rab3rd

Great shots, I like the train shot and hey look, theres something you never see. A broke down car on Houston freeways. LOL

Thanks. LOL.

Originally Posted by DigitalScape

Very well done, Patti - I also like the first and last images the best.

Thanks John.

[Patti Edens]

Originally Posted by TxPhotoShooter

Good job Patti! Like the last one especially.

Thank you David. That seems to be a favorite. I liked the Metro train the best myself. I just kept wishing I had been able to paint out farther on that pier, however the instructor in the course said it was best not to paint out farther so I would get the separation from the horizon.

[Lexie]

Very cool shots Patti! Like all of them!!

[Patti Edens]

Originally Posted by Lexie

Very cool shots Patti! Like all of them!!

Thanks Debbie. It was a fun class even though I got very little sleep those 4 weeks. :)

[juku]

great shots Patti! awful brave of you to stay out at the lake after sunset; lots of critters dont wait too long past that time to come out and play. keep up the great work (but with more sleep)!

[incu_jess]

This post made me let out the first WOW in a long time! Great job!

[lhdvies]

Great job Patti!!

[Patti Edens]

Originally Posted by juku

great shots Patti! awful brave of you to stay out at the lake after sunset; lots of critters dont wait too long past that time to come out and play. keep up the great work (but with more sleep)!

Rich, Welcome to TPF! And thanks for the kind words. You are right. I was a bit worried about stepping on an alligator out there. I did use my flashlight to walk out there.