Holiday Lights!

 

As the year comes to an end picture taking usually gets put on the back burner while we prepare for the holidays. But this time of year offers unique experience of photographing the beautiful holiday lights on display. You should take a few moments out of your hectic schedule and go out with tripod in hand and make some holiday images! Here are a few tips that I think will improve your holiday display photography.
 
Find a location where they turn the lights on a little early and go out about a half hour before sunset so you can balance the blue sky with the colorful lights. Click on image to see larger view.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Try zooming your lens during an exposure. What I like to do is find an aperture that will give me an exposure of at least 3 seconds, and then zoom the lens part way into the exposure. So for example on a 3 second exposure, I would count to two before zooming the lens. On a 5 second exposure I would count to three or four before zooming the lens. This way your subject gets "fixed" and the zoom adds an accent. The example below is a 3 second exposure where I counted the two before zooming.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Another thing you might want to try is taking a time lapse of the lights. Here is a time lapse I did where I took a picture every 5 seconds for an hour!
 
 
 
Enjoy the season, I hope you make what many wonderful photographs!

 

I still have space on my trip to Alaska to photograph the bears. For more info click here.
 
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Take care,
 

 

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