Night 20 — Day 324
Photography is, elementally, capturing light. Night is generally the lack thereof so finding light is a challenge. High ISO, wide apertures, long shutters make a challenging situation harder.
Building on prior months of People, Light and Shadow, and Long Exposure, it came naturally to make Night and November about bringing several ideas together.
While other months have been about styles and inspiration I’ve drawn on before, November I found a new and exciting style I’d had not ever photographed. I usually prefer sharp subjects, “proper” exposure, and other technical details being refined. In this instance, I embraced motion blur of the people in the photographs—sometimes ghostly and eerie additions to what would have been rather average scenes.
“A camera alone only captures light. Through skillful manipulation does that light become cinematography.”
These average scenes became unique—places one has seen or past by a thousand time are an altered reality, frozen in time. I would contend that such a philosophy is one of the creative fundamentals of photography—to make the unremarkable, remarkable.
