SOMEWHERE dark

I went out to try and get some "somewhere dark" photographs. These photos are a mixture of experiments and practicing but there are also some that i quite like and think that with a bit of editing i will use as my final image.

 This photo of the fire was basically just a quick snap as i was walking past because i thought maybe it could be used towards my "something dark" so i took my camera out quickly and this was the best picture that i took.

In this photograph i was trying to capture the fog/mist over the top of the stream but i couldn't get a picture with the fog/mist closer to the camera, it only showed up further down the stream. While i was taking this photograph quite a lot of cars drove past on the road and their head lights have been caught in the photo and i do not like it because it takes the attention away from the stream and the fog and its also too bright.

This was my second attempt at capturing the fog/mist over the stream. In this picture i raised the aperture to 5 so that the camera would capture less light and i was also lucky as less cars went by. I prefer this picture a lot more to the first one because there is not so much bright light coming from the road and you are also able to see the sky more clearly and i really like how you can see the clouds movement a little bit.
I took this photograph using an ISO of 400, an aperture of f/5, an exposure of 20" and the focal length was 28mm.

Both of these photographs where just practice photos but i thought i would include them just to show.

This photograph is a not very good attempt of long exposure to capture the stars, unfortunately my camera can only have a set exposure as low as 30 seconds or i could use bulb but this would just cause camera shake. I plan on buying a cord remote so that i can set a specific time up to 99 hours to keep the shutter open. When i took this photo i did not have a long enough exposure to capture the stars which is why they are barely visible but if i bought a remote i could set a longer exposure which would allow more light in over a longer period of time and the stars would show up brightly.

To take this photo and in fact for all of my long exposure photo's i had to find a suitable place to put my camera as i do not have a tripod. The spot needed to be flat and sturdy so that the camera did not shake, for this photograph i used a bench to place my camera. The problem with this was that i could not take the photo from the exact place that i wanted to because there was no where to put my camera.

Anyways for this photograph i used an exposure time of 30 seconds, aperture of f/5.6, ISO of 400 and a focal length of 28mm. 

This is my favorite photograph out of this bunch of long exposure photographs and i think that after editing this photo a little bit i will use it as my final "somewhere dark" because the photo was taken at night and it was extremely dark....... as well as absolutely freezing!