Bright Lights

As part of my photo class, we are allowed to go on "field trips." We shot in the dark with 15-30 second shutter speeds which for those who don't speak photo nerd, is a slow shutter speed. We did this is in order to capture the lights of the city skyline.

Quick photo lesson: The slower your shutter speed, the more light there is in your picture. The downside to this is, that if you use a slower shutter speed you blur motion.

The purpose of the assignment was to shoot according to our histograms, not according to how things appear on our display screens. A histogram is a graph that depicts the highlights, midtones and shadows of a photo. We were striving for the "perfect histogram."

The following photos are unedited, except for the watermark. :D