Low Light Photography

Sandra chatting - I have always enjoyed taking photographs of places, but not the technical aspect of cameras and photography that fascinates Mike. However, a couple of the assignments that he's been given by the Sedgemoor Camera Club during the lockdown have interested me and I decided to share my experiences with anyone who's interested.

There will be no technobabble, or shutter speeds, or exposure times, just some bits and pieces that I discovered whilst trying to take reasonable photos.

In September SCC asked us to take a 'deceptive' picture. You've all seen the game where you have to guess what the item is from a photo taken at an unusual angle or a small bit of it. This was the sort of thing they were interested in.
We were lucky enough to have a couple of days in Kenilworth in September and I couldn't resist the row of houses seen across a park we were walking through.

Sedgemoor Camera Club is very 'hand-on' and this year have missed their usual walk round Bridgwater during an evening's darkness instead of a meeting. So, it was suggested that on the evening this excursion had been planned, we all take photos where we live and we could look at the results at the next Zoom meeting. I was quite pleased with my first effort which I thought was quite fun.

I then persuaded Mike to hold up a tea-light lamp and tried to get a photo in the dark. I was a bit disappointed with the result, but tried three different photo programmes.

What really surprised me was the difference between the results given by the programmes from the same photo.